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New technologies offer promise in the fight against fraud

By Susan Yellin | February 27 2020 10:01AM

The life and health insurance industry is delving into data analytics, conferring with other members of the financial services industry and bringing in anti-fraud investigators as just some of the tools in their arsenal against rising fraud.

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