gender discrimination

If you have a moment, LV= is interested in your intentions running up to the Gender Directive and I-E deadlines.

Some unintended consequences are looming in the pensions and annuities market. As we have known for some time, the use of risk assessment based on gender for insurance policies will be illegal from 21 December 2012. But the EU Commission has now said...

Scottish Provident is urging advisers to assess female client's protection needs ahead of the EU Gender Directive's implementation.

From December, life insurance policies will become the same for men and women. 
Rachel Dalton finds out what IFAs need to do to prepare for the change.

Women do not value their own lives as much as men do, according to new research from Scottish Provident.

PruProtect has said it is "bullish" about the future for the protection market and that it is aiming to be a major player in the UK market.

Protection is seen as a key growth area by IFAs with almost two thirds optimistic about increasing business in the sector this year.

With less than a year before the ECJ ruling on gender discrimination comes into effect, there is still confusion as to how insurers should respond, according to specialists.

LV= has big plans for 2012. Paul Robertson interviews one of the industry's most prominent Welshmen, Mark Jones.

The debate between insurers and their ‘right' to assess risk against public policy concerns about unethical discrimination has come into sharp focus again with the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ruling on gender discrimination.