Manufactured vulnerability – how might insurers respond?
Manufactured vulnerability
[https://www.ethicsandinsurance.info/2015/11/04/dangers-of-manufactured-vulnerability/]
is an ethical risk that marketing and compliance people in…
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.
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Insurance marketing and the dangers of manufactured vulnerability
Marketing is adopting the tools of big data and some of the practices that are
emerging would, if used by…
A revealing window into insurer thinking on big data
A recent conference on ‘big data and insurance’ opened a window into the UK
insurance sector’s current thinking on…
How objective is the data your firm uses to make decisions?
An insurer told me recently that the only reason for a huge increase in a
renewal premium was because of…
Why that magic element of big data could be fatal for insurers
Earlier this year, I wrote a post
[https://www.ethicsandinsurance.info/2015/01/28/data-equality-insurance/] called
‘Data, Equality and Insurance’…
Big data: has the Financial Ombudsman missed something significant?
The Financial Ombudsman Service
[http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/default.htm] (FOS) has been weighing up
the implications that big…
Social Sorting: could it be the stuff of nightmares for insurance firms?
Privacy is an ethical issue that the UK insurance sector often thinks about,
usually in terms of it being something…
Why data is the key regulatory challenge in financial services
Data is the key challenge facing the regulation of UK financial services.
So said a representative of the Prudential Regulatory…
Price optimisation pt2 – key losses that insurers face
Around half of UK motor insurance is said to be priced according to some form of
price optimisation. If so,…