Planet Insurance

We hope that this report will prove useful to the House of Lords Committee, the Government and other interested parties. The UKFGI is an independent body aiming to encourage interdisciplinary discussions about genetic risk to seek solutions to the differing anxieties of the public, of genetic specialists, of ethicists and of the insurance industry to the dilemmas posed by the implementation of genetic testing and screening and of genomic medicine. One of the recommendations seeks a solution to the ‘test now, buy later’ issue. Two issues have prevented progress. The first is an ethical...