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Accountability

Insurance's digital transformation is driving ever increasing calls for clearer accountability. The message is 'if you want our trust, give us accountability'. These articles look at the issues involved. Use them to shape your thinking.
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Accountability
Failing to Prevent Fraud - the Implications for Insurers public
Accountability • 5 min read

Failing to Prevent Fraud - the Implications for Insurers

The UK government is introducing a new counter fraud law. It will be an offence for an organisation to fail to prevent fraud by an employee or someone working on their behalf. The range of activities covered is very wide. So what should insurers be looking at to avoid falling foul of this new law?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Data Ethics & Insurance : New Initiatives, Hard Decisions public
Data Ethics • 7 min read

Data Ethics & Insurance : New Initiatives, Hard Decisions

Several initiatives on data ethics will be launched in the UK insurance sector in 2024. That’s great, but those commitments need to reflect what consumers are concerned about. This means a lot of risk assessment and implementation work. So what are the hard decisions that will inevitably be faced?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Why the Social Scoring Ban is Seismic for Counter Fraud public
Counter Fraud • 6 min read

Why the Social Scoring Ban is Seismic for Counter Fraud

There are many significant things in the EU’s AI Act but none will be more disruptive for insurers than the proposed ban on social scoring. It will cause the sector’s core digital strategies to need serious reconfiguring. So why has this happened and what do insurers have to look out for?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
The FCA’s Approach to AI is to be Audited public
Regulation • 5 min read

The FCA’s Approach to AI is to be Audited

The National Audit Office is to review the FCA’s approach to artificial intelligence. A subsequent speech by the FCA’s chief executive set out their thinking on AI. It sounded very much like 'have cake and eat it’ thinking. Will the NAO call this out? If so, what will that mean for insurers?…
Duncan Minty
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
Duncan Minty •
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.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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