Why that magic element of big data could be fatal for insurers
Earlier this year, I wrote a post
[https://www.ethicsandinsurance.info/2015/01/28/data-equality-insurance/] called
‘Data, Equality and Insurance’…
Duncan Minty
Duncan has been researching and writing about ethics in insurance for over 20 years. As a Chartered Insurance Practitioner, he combines market knowledge with a strong and independent radar on ethics.
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How good are you at ethics? Are you sure? Is it enough?
Insurance is full of good people. Yet when you add up the cumulative impact of
all those occasions when policies…
A radical change in insurance regulation is underway
The Chartered Insurance Institute has recently published a paper by me, entitled ‘The Digital Panopticon and the New Power of…
Vulnerable consumers and price optimisation: a reputation wrecker?
Vulnerable consumers have been in the spotlight recently, following some
research papers [http://www.fca.org.uk/news/occasional-paper-no-8] issued…
Big data: has the Financial Ombudsman missed something significant?
The Financial Ombudsman Service
[http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/default.htm] (FOS) has been weighing up
the implications that big…
Data, Equality and Insurance: a small survey
The insurance market is entering a new phase, in which underwriting and claims practices are being transformed through access to…
Consent: part of the changing landscape of insurance regulation
Consent is a term rarely mentioned in insurance circles, yet it lies at the
heart of every policy sold by…
The three ingredients of ethical behaviour
Many firms in the insurance market will be looking to make progress on ethical
behaviours in 2015. That’s great,…
Signals that conflicts of interest send out about your firm
A conflict of interest is not a stand-alone ethical risk. To borrow a phrase, it
has friends, and not very…