gender discrimination

Protection advisers are calling for greatly improved adviser communications from insurers and product providers on gender-neutral pricing.

Legal & General has launched a Gender Response team for its individual protection business as the EU Gender Directive deadline nears.

LV= will switch its protection business to gender neutral rates on 1 December and has announced its pipeline strategy for advisers.

Women who work are not recognising the importance of protection and need to seek advice, Scottish Provident has warned.

A comparison website has estimated a 15% life insurance rate rise for women post-Gender Directive and warned that getting in early will be vital.

From a Financial Services Ombudsman update to panel discussions with interactive voting; this year's COVER forum programme has been finalised.

Ageas does not have a re-price proposition for G-day.

Mining third parties and affinity sources for consumer data needs to be the next step in protection innovation as gender falls away, Ageas has said.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident has confirmed that it will be announcing its G-Day pipeline strategy in September.

In the Test-Achats judgement on 1 March last year the European Court of Justice ruled that different premiums for men and women equated to sex discrimination. Gender, or relating factors, used in premium prices were banned. And here we are - five months...