Discrimination

Discrimination is developing at speed as the No 1 ethical risk for a typical insurer. What every insurer needs to be assembling is the evidence of how they are managing discrimination in relation to their deals with customers across all business functions. Has the reporting got the right scope and depth? Is it based upon the right perspective? The articles will help a lot.
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Discrimination
Why Insurers must Manage their Ethical Debt public
Accountability 3 min read

Why Insurers must Manage their Ethical Debt

Many digital decision systems deployed in insurance carry unknown levels of ethical debt. Over the next 3 to 5 years, a lot of that ethical debt will need to be repaid. In some circumstances, the amount could be very substantial. So what should insurers do now to prepare for this?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Right Question ; Wrong People – A Warning on Data Ethics public
Fairness 4 min read

Right Question ; Wrong People – A Warning on Data Ethics

Insurers are working on ways to ensure that their digital decision systems deliver outputs that are fair and non-discriminatory. In doing so, they find that this involves some difficult choices. Yet how are those choices made? It's important that insurers don't approach them the wrong way round.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Discriminatory Pricing – the Storm Clouds Move Nearer public
Discrimination 8 min read

Discriminatory Pricing – the Storm Clouds Move Nearer

Further research into discriminatory pricing in UK motor insurance is keeping up pressure on insurers and the regulator to tackle the issue. And with signs that the challenge is evolving, insurers are in danger of failing to see how this issue will grow and impact the heart of their businesses.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Can ChatGPT Help Insurers be Better at Ethics? public
Data Ethics 4 min read

Can ChatGPT Help Insurers be Better at Ethics?

We’re starting to see OpenAI’s ChatGPT used in discussions about the ethics of insurance. What has surprised some organisers is just how popular discussions like this are with conference audiences. So is the sector’s understanding of ethics about to be transformed? I examine the implications.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Data Protection Risks from Discriminatory Pricing public
Privacy 4 min read

The Data Protection Risks from Discriminatory Pricing

A key issue that insurers face when responding to concerns about discriminatory pricing is their handling of special category data. What is held and how it’s used are subject to all sorts of conditions. So what implications might this have for insurers and regulators?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Fairness of Insurance Pricing is Challenged Again public
Discrimination 8 min read

The Fairness of Insurance Pricing is Challenged Again

The fairness of insurance pricing is again being challenged, this time by the UK’s leading campaigning journalist on finance matters. Martin Lewis believes insurers are breaking the law in how they handle people with mental health issues. The only surprise is how long this has taken to emerge.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Can Insurers Tackle Discriminatory Pricing in Time? public
Discrimination 7 min read

Can Insurers Tackle Discriminatory Pricing in Time?

The hugely significant issue of discriminatory pricing has entered its second phase, with Citizens Advice issuing a report on what it expects the regulator and insurers to do next. It’s an intriguing report, full of expectations, pathways and warnings. So what does it add up to?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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