ANYONE who is interested in the tangles of modern personal insurance should
take a look at Genetics and Insurance, a recent report from the House
of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology.
The committee soundly criticises insurers for applying genetic tests before
their reliability is fully established. It would have been better, it says, if
the insurance companies had been more cautious in this difficult area. Their
haste will bring them little immediate financial reward but a good deal of
adverse publicity, it warns.
Within the report is an especially moving comment from Cambridge geneticist
Martin Bobrow: “The simple…
