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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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Underwriting • 2 min read

Is the FCA a Price Regulator?

Is price in UK insurance markets regulated? There’s a game of words going on at the moment. The regulator told the sector last week that it’s not a price regulator. How should the sector react to that? Will they be convinced?…
Duncan Minty
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Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence? public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Are Regulators Sitting on an Algorithmic Fence?

A key question for insurers over the next 5 years will be how regulators handle the issues raised by their increasing use of algorithms. The message being signalled in a recent paper by the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum is clear. And the position they’re taking will be an uncomfortable one.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Machine Unlearning - a New Digital Capability for Insurers public
Data Ethics • 4 min read

Machine Unlearning - a New Digital Capability for Insurers

Some serious exposures are looming on insurers’ reputational horizons. Most stem from how their digital technologies have been configured. If any of those exposures are realised, insurers will have to both delete ‘bad data’ and remove its influence on their models. It’s called machine unlearning…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Could the Ethnicity Penalty Trigger Something Very Big? public
Discrimination • 5 min read

Could the Ethnicity Penalty Trigger Something Very Big?

We’re living in a period of digital transformation. And one of those key areas of transformation is in the law. How do we make our laws fit for a digital future? Insurers have an interest in this on several levels, but in this analysis piece, I’m going to focus on this from a compliance angle.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Insurers to be Banned from Electronic Health Data in the EU public
Data Ethics • 3 min read

Insurers to be Banned from Electronic Health Data in the EU

The EU has this week issued a proposal for the regulation of electronic health data. It’s implications for insurance are stark. As it stands, the proposal will ban the secondary use of electronic health data for insurance purposes. It’s early days, but insurers have a digital mountain to climb.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Data Ethics • 2 min read

Regulators issue Two Important Papers on Algorithms

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum has just issued two ‘call for input’ papers that insurers should pay attention to. These point to some joint regulatory initiatives ahead. One paper is on the benefits and harms of algorithms, and the other on auditing algorithms.…
Duncan Minty
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The Two Unknowns Forming Around the Ethnicity Penalty public
Discrimination • 4 min read

The Two Unknowns Forming Around the Ethnicity Penalty

Two unknowns are forming around the ethnicity penalty research at the moment. Insurers, consumer groups and trade bodies are talking about one of them. The other is not being mentioned. In this analysis piece, I’m going to explore both and what insurers can do in relation to each of them.…
Duncan Minty
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What the EHRC’s New Strategy Means for Insurers public
Discrimination • 4 min read

What the EHRC’s New Strategy Means for Insurers

Around the same time as Citizens Advice published its report on the ethnicity penalty, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission published its strategy for 2022-2025. It’s worthwhile taking a look at, for it will shape the EHRC’s response to this whole issue of discriminatory pricing.…
Duncan Minty
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How Diverse are the Digital Teams Working in Insurance? public
Discrimination • 2 min read

How Diverse are the Digital Teams Working in Insurance?

There’s a big obvious question that doesn’t seem to have been raised so far in relation to the Citizens Advice ethnicity penalty report. It’s this - to what degree does the problem in pricing set out in their report reflect a problem with the diversity of the people working in digital insurance?…
Duncan Minty
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