Personalisation

The biggest trend in insurance raises some of the most fundamental ethical questions. You can read about these here.
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Personalisation
Tensions Around Insurance and Mental Health Apps public
Underwriting 6 min read

Tensions Around Insurance and Mental Health Apps

The insurance sector is interested in mental health. Support for their employees and those of clients is part of this. There’s also an underwriting interest in how mental health presents. There are tensions around these two things though, with important ethical questions needing to be addressed.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Why This Approach to AI, Insurance and Regulation is Flawed public
Data Ethics 8 min read

Why This Approach to AI, Insurance and Regulation is Flawed

A leading insurance institution has set out its views on how insurers’ use of AI should be regulated. Their aim is to give insurers a ‘right to innovate’. Their case is cleverly constructed, but underlying it are some flawed interpretations. I critique the report and offer a more realistic view.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Drones Enable Automated U/W by Image Analysis public
Underwriting 4 min read

Drones Enable Automated U/W by Image Analysis

I recently highlighted how insurers were starting to gather data not just about what’s around your house (think flood), but also about how your house is built and maintained. The result is a wave of policyholders receiving notices of non-renewal. So what’s the big picture here?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
Have Insurers been Honest with Consumers? public
Personalisation 5 min read

Have Insurers been Honest with Consumers?

Big changes are underway in insurance. So what do consumers think of those changes? Surveys often show strong support from consumers for the biggest change of all – the move from pooling to personalisation. Yet why is this so, and can we trust what these surveys tell us?…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Insurance Complex: A Bleak Future? public
Personalisation 6 min read

The Insurance Complex: A Bleak Future?

Insurance is becoming a performance market. For insurers to compete, consumers must perform, at first for a competitive premium, progressively for enough cover and eventually for access to the market. What emerges then is ‘an insurance complex’ that defines relations with consumers and society.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
The Three Most Read Articles of 2022 public
Trust 3 min read

The Three Most Read Articles of 2022

With so much happening in insurance at the moment, and with plenty on the horizon, it’s interesting to see which articles were the most read during 2022. The top three show insurance people weighing up some of the significant implications of the digital transformation of insurance.…
Duncan Minty
Duncan Minty
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