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Article: Insurers hot on genetic testing Screening issues raise concerns
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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THE BRAVE new world of genetic testing seems likely to create an
insurance underclass as disgruntled - if not as diverse - as the
rapidly ageing population.
The Human Rights Commission is revisiting guidelines it issued 10
years ago to help insurers avoid falling foul of the provisions of
the then ground-breaking Human Rights Act, which took away insurers'
right to refuse life cover on the grounds of race, religion, gender
or age.
Commission lawyer Sylvia Bell said the review would explore human
rights issues that had come into prominence since then, including
genetic testing.
But some insurers are already asking those who have had genetic
testing done to hand over the results, although ...