Tag: smoking
Top post of 2022: Life insurance laboratory collaboration study: $4 billion tobacco misrepresentation cost to the life insurance industry
American Para Professional Systems, Clinical Reference Labs, ExamOne, and IMS Paramed have joined forces to create a robust deidentified dataset of life insurance applicants spanning the years 2015-2022. This report finds that there is a concerning industry trend of tobacco misrepresentation in the life insurance industry
Debunking the myths: the facts about cotinine
ExamOne's cotinine testing data shows that smoking non-disclosure rates for life insurance applicants are up from 27% in 2010 to 43% in 2021. Laboratory testing is the only way to discover who has “smoker’s amnesia.”
