A day-long symposium hosted by The Insurance Law Center and The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Starr Hall on Thursday, April 3, 2014 from 8:00 am – 4:15 pm.
The revolution in the technology of data known as “Big Data” poses technological and organizational challenges for the field of insurance. Will we see a new paradigm of insurance that puts data at the center of its activity (and no longer only risk)? Similarly, which values, which norms, which regulation should govern the new world of data? This latter question has important implications for the regulation of data (until now little experienced in the insurance context): the ownership of data, their use in risk classification and evidence-based healthcare, and protections against the abuse of data (privacy and discrimination). In this symposium, we will explore these issues, bringing together the experience of insurers, scholars, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:45 Welcome to the Law School
9:00 Big Data and the Paradigm of Insurance
Eric Brat, Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Francois Ewald, Scholar in Residence and International Research Fellow, University of Connecticut School of Law
Cyrille de Montgolfier, Senior Vice President European and Public Affairs, AXA Group
Moderator: Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law
10:15 Break
10:30 Big Data, Risk Classification, and Adverse Selection
Christophe Geissler, Chief Scientific Officer, Quinten
Peter Siegelman, Roger Sherman Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Rick Swedloff, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law—Camden
Moderator: Peter Kochenburger, University of Connecticut School of Law
11:45 Luncheon
Luncheon Keynote Address
The Hon. George Jepsen, Connecticut Attorney General
1:30 Big Data and the Consequences for the Management of Health Care
Tom Baker, William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Law School
JudyAnn Bigby, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research and past Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Sharona Hoffman, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University
Moderator: John Aloysius Cogan, Jr., University of Connecticut School of Law
3:00 Global Regulatory Implications of Big Data in Insurance: Social Values and Norms
Matthew F. Fitzsimmons, Assistant Attorney General and Chair, Privacy Task Force, Office of the Attorney General, State of Connecticut
Andromachi Georgosouli, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Romain Paserot, Director of Cross-functional and Specialized Supervision, Autorit de contr le prudentiel, France
Moderator: Francois Ewald, University of Connecticut School of Law
4:15 Conference Conclusion