Press Coverage
Journalists and reporters interested in the rapidly changing world of life insurance, LifeScore Labs is always available to lend a perspective and share our learning. Please click below to see some of the press coverage of our work and products.
Press inquiries can be directed to Amy Stoll, Director of Marketing.
December 9th, 2020 | MassMutual's LifeScore Labs and Antara Health Partner to Explore Risk Scoring in Healthcare
Risk scoring will measure impact, improve patient experience, and achieve better health outcomes by generating data needed to create affordable life and health products for the middle class.
December 3rd, 2020 | Sapiens Joins Forces with LifeScore Labs to Innovate Life Insurance Underwriting
Partnership will bring machine learning models to life insurers' mortality risk assessment, boosting accuracy and reducing underwriting costs.
June 18th, 2019 | MassMutual's LifeScore Labs Seeking Life Carrier Partners for New LifeScore360X Beta Testing
May 1st, 2019 | A Revolution in Underwriting
The sweeping letter was a warning to the industry. It spilled over six single-spaced pages and 2,000 words, putting life insurers on notice for the emerging use of unconventional data in their automated underwriting...
February 8th, 2019 | Big New Life Marketing Moves: Ethos, MassMutual, Foresters
Franklin Madison Group LLC, a company that markets financial services to financial institutions, said earlier this week that it has agreed to offer the Ethos term life insurance program to its 3,500 financial institution clients.
February 7th, 2019 | Why the Future of Life Insurance May Depend on Your Online Presence
In reality, it has long been the case that what you pay for life insurance could at least be affected by your next Instagram post. It is already legal, and increasingly common, for life insurers to use so-called “nontraditional” sources of public data — including credit scores, court documents, and motor vehicle records...
February 5th, 2019 | MassMutual’s LifeScore Labs Wants to Offer Visibility Into the Process
MassMutual’s LifeScore Labs, a division working on portability and scoring of life insurance risk, has launched a consumer-facing tool on its site that aims to provide some visibility into how algorithms interpret data...
February 5th, 2019 | LifeScore Labs Launches Consumer-Facing Risk Scoring Tool
MyLifeScore360 is a free online risk scoring tool that provides insights to how an insurance carrier may measure their risk, by answering 10 questions on such characteristics as age, height, weight and smoking-status, among others. Based on their answers, consumers...
February 4th, 2019 | MassMutual's LifeScore Labs Debuts Consumer-Facing Risk Sorting Tool
MyLifeScore360, which is an abbreviated version of the LifeScore360 product available to life insurers, gives individuals transparency into the life insurance underwriting process...
March 29th, 2018 | Five Ways MassMutual's AI Systems Could Evolve
Sears Merritt is one of the people helping life insurers figure out what applying fast computers, giant databases, and rocket-scientist-type math to insurance can do for performance...
March 22nd, 2018 | Swiss Re Adopts MassMutual's LifeScore Med360 for Mortality Risk
LifeScore Labs, an initiative of MassMutual’s (Springfield, Mass.) Data Science team, has entered into an agreement with Swiss Re U.S. Life & Health (Armonk, N.Y.) for the reinsurer to support LifeScore Med360, LifeScore Labs’ standards-based algorithmic risk scoring solution. MassMutual reports that Swiss Re will offer LifeScore Med360 as an additional analytics option for the reinsurer’s Magnum automated underwriting system...
March 20th, 2018 | MassMutual's LifeScore Labs and Swiss Re Partner to Bring LifeScore360 to Market
LifeScore Labs and leading reinsurer Swiss Re today announced a collaboration to support LifeScore Med360, LifeScore Labs’ standards-based algorithmic risk scoring solution. LifeScore Med360 will be offered as an additional analytics option for Swiss Re's automated underwriting system (Magnum)...
March 2nd, 2018 | Weekly Wrapup: Insurers Develop New Revenue Streams With Data
Ask people in the insurance industry to describe digital disruption, and you'll get a wide range of answers. Some think of it from a short-term perspective: Customers expect to be able to buy and service their products digitally, and that means it’s time to implement...
February 28th, 2018 | iPipeline and MassMutual's LifeScore Labs Partner to Instantly Deliver Risk Scores for Underwriting
iPipeline® – a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry – and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) today announced a partnership agreement with MassMutual’s LifeScore Labs...
February 28th, 2018 | MassMutual Unit, iPipeline Partner to Distribute Risk Model
LifeScore Labs, a division of MassMutual, and insurance technology provider iPipeline are collaborating to offer a risk model for life insurance to the general market of carriers...