A New Insurance Tool Uses Your Face To Predict Health Risks
If the idea of an insurance company scanning your face makes you pause, you are not alone. We sit down with Rebecca to unpack a “never before seen in New Zealand” move in the insurance industry: facial scanning software that claims it can detect susceptibility to things like high blood pressure, cholesterol issues, and diabetes, then uses that result to shape your underwriting questions.
We get practical about what this means for real people applying for life insurance and trauma cover, and why insurers are motivated to push insurtech that reduces long forms and frees up underwriters. We also…
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