COVID-19 Update: Summer Excess Mortality Higher than Expected
Executive Summary: Historically, mortality rates trend downward during the summer months, but in the summer of 2020 mortality was on the rise for life settlements. In total from April through September, we observed at-most a very small protection from COVID-19 on the life settlements population. COVID vaccines will likely reduce excess mortality in life settlements significantly by Spring 2021. Insureds in nursing homes and [...]