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Fairness

The most complex and influential ethical issue in today's insurance. Insurers need to be clear in their thinking on fairness, for it's going to be receiving a lot of attention over the next few years.
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Fairness
Fairness • 3 min read

Financial Inclusion – a small but significant step

The influential Treasury Committee has recommended that the UK insurance regulator be put under a ‘have regard’ obligation for financial inclusion when it makes rules. It would be a small yet significant step towards addressing financial inclusion, were the Treasury to accept the recommendation.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Insurance as a Common Good public
Fairness • 3 min read

Insurance as a Common Good

Could insurance be considered as a form of common good? And if so, how might that have come about? And more importantly, how might it influence the way in which insurance markets are allowed to digitally transform?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Ethics, Claims and the Cost of Living Crisis public
Claims • 7 min read

Ethics, Claims and the Cost of Living Crisis

The cost of living crisis will have impacts across insurance. At the forefront will be claims, with increased settlements and concerns around fraud. Many insurers will turn to the digital tools widely used now in claims decisions. Yet in doing so, what ethical risks might they stir up?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Could Financial Inclusion be at a Turning Point? public
Regulation • 9 min read

Could Financial Inclusion be at a Turning Point?

Pressure is being put on the UK Government to raise the attention that the regulator gives to financial inclusion. Not many of you will realise that, at the moment, such attention is pretty discretionary. Will this pressure succeed? And if it does, what repercussions could this have for insurers?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Explaining the Fairness of a Particular Rating Factor public
Fairness • 7 min read

Explaining the Fairness of a Particular Rating Factor

How would you explain the fairness of using a particular rating factor? You can’t rely on just statistics anymore. While the super-complaint tied fairness to the overall premium, now long running challenges to certain rating factors are re-emerging. Underwriters need to prepare for this.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
Review - The Tyranny of Merit public
Fairness • 3 min read

Review - The Tyranny of Merit

The fairness of merit is at the heart of the digital revolution happening in insurance at the moment. While not about insurance, this book delivers some important insights into key questions about the future of insurance and its relations with society.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty •
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