The people that help design policies are called actuaries. Outside of the company, they're usually applied math major graduates. Other people are involved too, like health and also business and law experts.
Inside the company, it's probably mostly business and law leaning on the shoulders of some external help.
An ACTUARY is a person who determines statistically how long a person will live if they are of age A, height B, weight C, smoking status D, blood pressure E, cholesterol reading F, family history G, alcoholic drinking habit H, and maybe a few more letters. Once the actuary determines your expected life span, he mathematically derives premium payments for a given death benefit. The actuary needs to be mindful that if he charges too much the client will go elsewhere and if he charges too little, it puts his own company at risk.
The actuary is at the core of the process, but once they arrive at a premium schedule, lawyers frame it in language designed to protect the interests of the insurance carrier. People from Sales and Marketing may also have input to create a unique selling proposition to differentiate their product from those of their competitors.
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