Data and Power pt4 – the right skills are vital to success in data ethics
As data and analytics transforms insurance, the sector’s demand for people with
digital skills has increased enormously. Yet if…
Data Ethics
With insurance becoming increasingly digital, data ethics has become the key lens through which issues and challenges are emerging. What makes it particularly important is how it is influencing insurance at both the policy and the market levels.
215 posts
Data Ethics starts with Rigorous and Critical Due Diligence
Insurers are often referred to as long established users of large datasets,
familiar with the opportunities and challenges they present.…
Data and Power pt2 – the two big threats to insurers’ digital strategies
It is clear that the two ethical issues over which insurers are going to find their digital strategies most challenged…
Data and Power pt1 – the starting point for insurers’ data ethics journey
The most significant ethical theme that insurers need to address over the next
three years is data ethics . Just as…
Why insurers need to review their use of credit data
The US auto insurer Root recently announced that it will remove credit scores from its insurance pricing by 2025. The…
The lessons that claims people should learn from the exam grades debacle
The debacle around how recent exam grades were decided in the UK provides
insurance people with some lessons on what…
Why pricing data can send out all the wrong signals
Insurance people used to think of pricing as just a market thing – nothing to do
with ethics or misconduct. Now…
Insurers must prepare for big changes around genetic testing
We will soon see some significant changes to the way in which the use of genetic
information by UK insurers…
Are loss prevention initiatives just trojan horses for data harvesting ?
A buzz phrase gaining momentum in the insurance market at the moment is ‘ecospheres of prevention’. It’s about using…