Insurers must stop gender pricing

Mar 1 – Insurers must stop setting prices based on gender, according to an EU court ruling, a decision which could push up the cost of motor insurance for women drivers. Andrew Potter reports


Insurers must stop gender pricing

questions

  1. What supports the fact that young women are safer drivers?
  2. Who cost insurers less?
  3. How have women been rewarded up until now?
  4. What must stop?
  5. Who has decided this?
  6. How does the spokesman feel about the judgement?
  7. As well as being safer, what other factor about women is taken into account when setting car insurance premiums?
  8. What do some specialist insurers hope to do?
  9. Who makes the most claims men or women?
  10. Where might the European Court of Justice look next?

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