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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.
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Duncan Minty
Three Questions for Managing Legal/Ethical Boundaries public
Accountability • 3 min read

Three Questions for Managing Legal/Ethical Boundaries

The boundary between what’s ethical and what’s legal is said at times to be a fine one, at other times a blurry one. In these digital times, it is also a moving one. So how should an insurer handle this? A ‘wait and see’ approach is too ostrich like. Instead, try this approach to get you started.…
Duncan Minty
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How Innovation and Inclusion in Insurance Can Work Together public
Fairness • 4 min read

How Innovation and Inclusion in Insurance Can Work Together

In recent months, I’ve been working as guest editor for the latest edition of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Inclusive Insurance Bulletin. It drew together articles that explored innovation from a number of different perspectives, but all oriented around tackling inclusion in insurance.…
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A Test Case on Data Ethics that Insurers Need to Watch public
Data Ethics • 5 min read

A Test Case on Data Ethics that Insurers Need to Watch

Location data is becoming positioned as a tangible example of how data ethics is to be addressed. A UK Gov. commission wants to boost public confidence in how location data is collected and used. Insurers need to monitor the commission’s work to understand policy makers expectations.…
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The Risks Insurers Run as Buyers of Secondary Data public
Privacy • 3 min read

The Risks Insurers Run as Buyers of Secondary Data

A technology activist has released a huge file of segmentation data into the public domain. It shows the extent to which data brokers are scraping data and selling it for “identities”. As significant users of secondary data, insurers need to take great care managing exposures like this.…
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Poor Performance on Codes of Ethics by UK Firms public
• 5 min read

Poor Performance on Codes of Ethics by UK Firms

The UK’s leading institute on business ethics has published a survey on codes of ethics – who has them, how good they are and the like. It’s a pretty poor performance by UK plc, with too many firms lacking one, or having one that’s not good enough. So how do insurers compare?…
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The Industrialisation of Claims Denials public
Claims • 4 min read

The Industrialisation of Claims Denials

Lemonade made the news recently when it claimed a new record for settling a claim in 2 seconds. Unfortunately, campaigners are reporting that another insurer has built a system that rejects claims in under 2 seconds. Insurers need to think about claims automation more carefully than at present.…
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