Maybe You Already Have a Great Pandemic Product: Product Designers

June 9, 2020 by Allison Bell

Insurance product designers who want to help fight COVID-19 should consider what they can do quickly, and what they can do with a product that might take more time to develop.

Taylor McKinnon and Pamela Handmaker talked about their insurance product design ideas Monday, at a session at a Society of Actuaries (SOA) health insurance conference that was held online, due to COVID-19.

McKinnon is a compliance consultant at Milliman.

Handmaker is senior director of product and innovation at Trustmark Benefits.

For a health insurer eager to do something now, “one of the options is just developing a new product,” McKinnon said. “But developing a new product takes time. Is that a quick enough approach?”

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on June 9, 2020 by Allison Bell.