Introduction : insurance ethics for a more ethical world / Patrick Flanagan, Patrick D. Primeaux, William L. Ferguson -- Insurance, risk assessment and fairness : an ethical analysis / Daniel E. Palmer -- Reasonable restrictions on underwriting / Joseph Heath -- Health insurance : economic and ethical issues / Alfonso R. Oddo -- A medical dilemma : how should physicians respond to patients questions about pay? / Chalmer E. Labig -- An eye for an eye investigating the impact of consumer perception of corporate unfairness on aberrant consumer behavior / Kyoko Fukukawa -- At the movies with the health insurance industry : ethical and environmental issues / Minnette A. Bumpus -- Walker Percy : a prophet for profit-makers / Rev. Robert E. Lauder -- Workplace romances : a platonic perspective / Martin J. Lecker -- AIG : accounting and ethical lapses / Mary D. Maury -- Insurance ethics, an oxymoron? / James Barrese -- Responsibility sharing : (elements of a framework for understanding insurance business ethics) / Johannes Brinkmann -- Spitzer's allegations of unethical/illegal behavior : has the insurance industry's ethical environment really changed dramatically? / Robert W. Cooper -- Statement of purpose.

This series explores the central and unique role of organizational ethics in creating and sustaining a flourishing, pluralistic, free enterprise economy. It examines how profit seeking and not-for-profit organizations can be conceived and designed to satisfy legitimate human needs in an ethical and meaningful way. The authors submit rigorous research studies from a wide variety of academic perspectives including: business management, philosophy, sociology, psychology, religion, accounting, finance, and marketing. It focuses on ethical issues in the insurance industry and includes a variety of disciplines with authors from over 30 countries. The papers were selected from the best presentations at the Twelfth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, held Oct. 2005 in Manhattan.