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Ethics and Insurance

I help insurers achieve greater certainty on ethical issues, both present and emerging. I have a reputation for foresight, pragmatism and independent thinking, particularly around data ethics. You can keep in touch with my analysis through my free weekly ‘Ethics and Insurance’ newsletter. Join below
Ethics and Insurance
What I do

Insight

I help insurers understand developments in insurance from an ethical perspective and the options open to them. My analysis delivers an extra level of understanding from an independent perspective
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Critical Friend

Insurers face some ethical challenges at the moment – I’ve been tracking them for several years. My role as a critical friend helps them to reality check their thinking and turn a situation into a plan.
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Horizon Scanning

I’ve been an influential figure in analysing the implications of digital insurance for several years now. Through workshops and research, my ethics radar highlights the problems and opportunities to look out for.
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Is your Code of Ethics Good Enough? public
Codes and Values • 5 min read

Is your Code of Ethics Good Enough?

Is your code of ethics good enough? A quick way to answer that is to look at when it was last reviewed. If that date is before November 2019, then the answer will almost certainly be no. And if your firm has been making some strategic moves recently, I would move that date to November 2020.…
Duncan Minty
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Challenges Emerge for Insurance and Wellness Products public
Underwriting • 4 min read

Challenges Emerge for Insurance and Wellness Products

‘Moving beyond insurance’ is a popular digital trend across many markets. Why just deal with losses when you can prevent claims, goes the narrative. Yet one regulatory move means insurers will soon have to design and sell their cover / wellness combination with great care.…
Duncan Minty
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Has Flood Re worked? public
Personalisation • 7 min read

Has Flood Re worked?

Has Flood Re worked? And if so, who is it working for the most? A Bank of England study addresses these questions, but with presumptions and interpretations that are open to challenge. This highlights why the policy landscape for flood insurance needs more diversified debate.…
Duncan Minty
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Can Insurers Overturn the ‘Right to be Forgotten’? public
Regulation • 3 min read

Can Insurers Overturn the ‘Right to be Forgotten’?

Insurers in Europe are challenging the EU’s proposals for people who survive cancer to have a ‘right to be forgotten’. At the heart of this dispute are two issues for insurers – the fairness of their underwriting, and the scope of their ‘right to know’. It’s part of a wider data ethics situation.…
Duncan Minty
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Credit Scores – could they turn toxic for insurers? public
Underwriting • 9 min read

Credit Scores – could they turn toxic for insurers?

The use of credit scores in insurance is contentious. Opinion has been divided over whether their use is fair or not. I say ‘has been’, for I’ve recently heard underwriters raise doubts. So should insurers prepare for change? And what might that change look like? I explore both questions here.…
Duncan Minty
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Data Ethics

Data Ethics

218+
Underwriting

Underwriting

166+
Accountability

Accountability

112+
Regulation

Regulation

95+
Fairness

Fairness

88+
Personalisation

Personalisation

75+
Discrimination

Discrimination

67+
Claims

Claims

51+
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