Why conflicts of interest is the top ethical issue for claims in 2019
The top ethical risk for claims functions in 2019 will be conflicts of interest. That means every claims director in…
Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest are at the heart of most ethical risks faced by insurers. That's because of how the market is structured. So you're unlikely to be able to remove them - it's invariably about mitigation. Yet this can be a struggle when everyone is so used to being in one. Honesty and challenge make all the difference.
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A checklist for conflicts of interest in insurance firms
Are insurance firms taking conflicts of interest seriously enough? It’s a
question that is needs addressing, given recent headlines.…
A revolution will soon transform conflicts of interest in insurance
Conflicts of interest have been so common in insurance, and for so long, that
the sector sometimes struggles to pay…
Is insurance missing the point with conflicts of interest?
Conflicts of interest are so common in insurance that they’ve given rise to a
raft of rules, policies and…
How ethical is intermediation?
Is intermediation ethical? This was a question put to me at a recent insurance
event I was speaking at. It’…
Signals that conflicts of interest send out about your firm
A conflict of interest is not a stand-alone ethical risk. To borrow a phrase, it
has friends, and not very…
Conflicts of interest: a challenge for more than just insurance brokers
Conflicts of interest have been in the ‘insurance news’ a lot recently, chiefly
because of the UK regulator’s review…
How to manage your conflicts of interest much more effectively pt2
In an earlier post
[https://www.ethicsandinsurance.info/2014/03/27/conflicts-of-interest-scope/], I
looked at the first of two problems…
Where do insurance firms go wrong with conflicts of interest?
Where do insurance firms go wrong with conflicts of interest? Their track record
has not been good. Two problems stand…