Guy Thomas  curriculum
United Kingdom

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Date: Friday, March 22

Session: 89

Life



Paper

  Genetics and insurance: an actuarial perspective with a difference
 

 


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Summary

Most individuals or organisations capable of commenting technically on insurance discrimination have a commercial interest in promoting such discrimination. Technical expertise is therefore directed to the promotion of discrimination for commercial ends, but little technical expertise is applied to counteract it. This paper attempts to redress the balance. Its central section comprises a point-by-point rebuttal of some of the myths and half-truths which are promulgated by those wishing to legitimise insurers' access to genetic test results.

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 Guy Thomas

Curriculum
Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries 1991

Assistant Examiner (1993-95), Examiner (1995-97), Principal Examiner (1997-99), Institute of Actuaries.

Institute of Actuaries prize 1999 for paper published in British Actuarial Journal "A non-liner stochastic asset model for actuarial use" (BAJ, volume 5 Part V 1999).

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