It doesn’t seem outrageous to me. You are asking them to bet against your death. There are many ways to die and due to adverse selection potentially fatal conditions are likely to be over-represented in applicants for their policies. It doesn’t seem unreasonable for them to try and leave themselves as much leeway as possible in detecting attempted fraud. It’s just sound underwriting.
I don’t object to their wanting the sample. In fact, I can’t think of much I’d reasonably expect them to test for that would cause me not to give it to them. But I want them to tell me what it is for.
If they were explicit about exactly what tests they planned to do they would open themselves up to gaming. Better to be non-specific and reserve the freedom to adapt. For similar reasons bodies trying to prevent and detect doping in sports will generally not want to publicize exactly what tests they perform.
It doesn’t seem outrageous to me. You are asking them to bet against your death. There are many ways to die and due to adverse selection potentially fatal conditions are likely to be over-represented in applicants for their policies. It doesn’t seem unreasonable for them to try and leave themselves as much leeway as possible in detecting attempted fraud. It’s just sound underwriting.
I don’t object to their wanting the sample. In fact, I can’t think of much I’d reasonably expect them to test for that would cause me not to give it to them. But I want them to tell me what it is for.
If they were explicit about exactly what tests they planned to do they would open themselves up to gaming. Better to be non-specific and reserve the freedom to adapt. For similar reasons bodies trying to prevent and detect doping in sports will generally not want to publicize exactly what tests they perform.