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What Do Carriers Need To Increase Market Share?(life insurance industry)

What are the current business and technology capabilities necessary for life insurance companies to maintain or increase their competitive position in the marketplace? Will this change over the next five years? TowerGroup, a Needham, Mass.-based research firm, set out to find the answers to these questions.

TowerGroup completed a series of research projects on underwriting and released extensive data on the property/casualty segment of the insurance industry.

In April 2006, TowerGroup launched its first life underwriting survey, hosted by Insurance Networkin

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