Duncan Minty

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.
550 posts
Duncan Minty
Do Insurers have the Right Ethics Resource? public
Ethical Skills and Training 4 min read

Do Insurers have the Right Ethics Resource?

A number of ethical challenges are circulating around insurance. Managing them so that they don’t disrupt the insurer’s business model requires expertise and experience. Yet how well resourced are insurers for this? As we head towards 2023, I set out some parameters for answering that question.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Free Guide : How to deliver Leadership on Ethics public
8 min read

Free Guide : How to deliver Leadership on Ethics

Ethics is like any other part of your business – it needs leadership. Sure, we’re all good people, wanting to ‘do the right thing’. That’s not enough though – ethics needs to be organised so that it delivers on the commitments that the business had made.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Warning Signals about Dark Patterns in Insurance Marketing public
Marketing 5 min read

Warning Signals about Dark Patterns in Insurance Marketing

Insurance marketing is big business. As it moves online, the tracking of sales pipelines fuels marketing practices to increase returns on all that investment. EIOPA has published examples of dark patterns it has found on the websites of EU insurers. Yet it’s missed a key part of the bigger picture.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Strong Opinions Emerge on Data Use in Counter Fraud public
Counter Fraud 8 min read

Strong Opinions Emerge on Data Use in Counter Fraud

A detailed survey of US consumers found that support for the use of data to combat insurance fraud is strong, but very conditional upon the proper handling of ethical issues. I examine the message being sent to insurers by the US public, and what UK insurers can learn from it.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Interesting Survey of Public Attitudes to Data and AI public
Data Ethics 4 min read

Interesting Survey of Public Attitudes to Data and AI

The UK Government’s unit for enabling trustworthy digital innovation has published the second wave of its survey of public attitudes to data and AI. Given the low levels of trust that consumers have in how insurers handling their data, the survey’s findings are worth a closer look.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
A Big Red Flag has been attached to Emotional AI public
Data Ethics 8 min read

A Big Red Flag has been attached to Emotional AI

The UK’s data protection regulator has raised a big red flag over the use of emotional AI. Not only do such systems fail to meet data protection requirements, but they also come with other serious ethical issues. So what does this mean for insurers, and how should they respond?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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
Duncan Minty
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