August 5, 2021CRL Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Robert Stout discusses the lasting impact of COVID-19 infection in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients…. Read More
Tags: Covid 19, Covid 19 Crisis, Laboratory, Life Insurance, Mortality
June 28, 2021Recently Dr. Michael Fulks commented on 2020 mortality data from JAMA, citing an increase of 17.7% from 2019 to 2020… Read More
Tags: Cancer, Insurance, Life Insurance, Mortality, Retirement
June 17, 2021Dr. Michael Fulks, Consulting Medical Director to CRL, comments on the 2020 leading causes of death in a COVID-19 world…. Read More
Tags: Cancer, Covid 19, Heart Disease, Life Insurance, Mortality
March 31, 2021Urine protein tests offer a simple way for insurance companies to obtain an important predictor of life risk. CRL recently… Read More
Tags: Healthcare, Kidney, Life Insurance, Medical Research, Mortality
January 20, 2021A fundamental underwriting principal is to treat like risks in a similar manner. This fairness doctrine is a key to… Read More
Tags: Cigarettes, Insurance, Mortality, Nicotine, Risk
December 14, 2020See below for details on the latest CRL acquisition. We are pleased to share that CRL has acquired Confirm BioSciences, a… Read More
Tags: Acquisition, Business, Laboratory, Life Insurance, Mortality
November 11, 2020There are many articles that can help answer the question of applicant hemoglobin A1c values, including this study from CRL: Relationship… Read More
Tags: Diabetes, Diabetic, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting
November 4, 2020Dr. Heather Fehling, Chief Scientific Officer of Molecular Diagnostics at CRL, was honored to join the Society of Actuaries Epigenetics… Read More
Tags: Epigenetics, Genetics, Life Insurance, Mortality, Science
October 7, 2020Dr. Michael Fulks, MD, comments on earlier research regarding the relative mortality in apparently healthy adults with various urine protein/creatinine… Read More
Tags: Lab Tests, Life Insurance, Mortality, Underwriting, Urinalysis
August 25, 2020Are you giving systolic blood pressure (SBP) the credit or debit it deserves? Review your company’s preferred criteria and note… Read More
Tags: Blood Pressure, Bp, Hypertension, Life Insurance, Mortality
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