2025 CAS (Casualty Actuarial Science) Canada Connection

In less than a month, Olivier Côté will attend the  CAS Canada Connection, in Toronto.  He will speak in a session Operationalizing Fairness in Actuarial Pricing: From Principle to Practice

Fairness metrics often lack actuarial relevance and are expressed in abstract units, obscuring real-world consequences. For actuaries to intervene, proxy effects and unfair biases must be quantified in insurance-relevant terms: dollars and people. This session will present new research from the CAS Race and Insurance Pricing series, focusing on the unique challenge of establishing fairness in actuarial pricing. We argue that actuarial fairness, solidarity, and causality form the three dimensions of fairness in insurance. These give rise to a five-point spectrum of pricing benchmarks, each reflecting distinct fairness goals and trade-offs. We quantify the monetary impact of unfairness at both the policyholder and segment levels through a large-scale Québec auto insurance case study.

Learning objectives are (1) Describe three dimensions of fairness in insurance pricing: actuarial fairness, solidarity, and causality (2) Translate these dimensions of fairness into a spectrum of five pricing benchmarks (3) Diagnose and quantify potential unfairness at both individual and segment levels using actuarially meaningful metrics.

It will be based on our recent paper, A Scalable toolbox for exposing indirect discrimination in insurance rates”.


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Arthur Charpentier (November 6, 2025). 2025 CAS (Casualty Actuarial Science) Canada Connection. Freakonometrics. Retrieved December 15, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/153ln


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