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Mental Health Calculator

The smart solution to assess mental health conditions

Increase in diagnosed mental illnesses

With a globally recognised increase in the prevalence of mental health disorders, Munich Re has identified the need to review its underwriting guidelines to increase the boundaries of insurability.

There have been significant increases in both the number of applicants disclosing a history of mental health conditions, and the number of claims being submitted. This can also be explained by a growing number of newly recognised mental health conditions, along with societal destigmatisation, leading to greater awareness and acceptance amongst the public. As more people suffering from mental health disorders share and treat their symptoms, along with heightened awareness regarding potential risk factors, doctors are now diagnosing mental illnesses more frequently.

Mental health is a key topic for our industry as society changes the way it deals with it. With our holistic solution – the Mental Health Calculator – we enable our clients to assess underwriting cases risk adequate and fair, today and in the future.

Dr. Alban Senn

Chief Medical Officer, Head of Research & Development

As a leading reinsurer, we challenged ourselves on: How can we address the increasing frequency and complexity, whilst being able to maintain fair and risk-adequate underwriting guidelines? To answer these questions, experts at Munich Re have developed a holistic solution: the Mental Health Calculator. Watch the video to know more:

Would you like to learn more? Then, download our MIRA Risk Review Paper and the User Guide which highlight the key features of the new holistic Mental Health Calculator and its benefits to extend the boundaries of insurability.

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In recognising the increasing complexities of mental health disorders, Munich Re has developed a Mental Health Calculator designed specifically to simplify the underwriting assessment, resulting in quicker, more accurate decisions whilst at the same time as increasing insurability for more people.

Matthew Bone

Head of Underwriting and Claims

UK Life Branch

Thanks to a differentiated underwriting approach, we have significantly increased consumer insurability whilst maintaining the ability to treat customers fairly and at the same time mitigating the risk to your portfolio. The clear structure of the calculator provides the best conditions for faster and more accurate Underwriting decisions.

Our new Mental Health Calculator allows us to take a holistic approach to this underwriting challenge, as it accurately takes into account the possible combinations and correlations of mental health disorders.