The ban on genetic test insurance discrimination

2024-10-10T15:10:25+10:00October 18th, 2024|General|

The ability for life insurers to discriminate based on adverse predictive genetic test results will be banned under a new Government proposal. Predictive genetic tests detect gene variants associated with heritable disorders that appear after birth, often later in life, but are not clinically detectable at the time of testing. To overcome concerns about