Insurers have until December 21st 2012 to remove gender based pricing. Will this mean they have to ignore statistics just because they could be considered gender specific? ‘Statistically’ (based on factual evidence) women live longer and young men have more car accidents. Will these facts have to be ignored? If you’d like to pick the ruling to pieces and try to find out what the likely impact will be, you can find it here: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/ Search for Case Ref: C-236/09 When it comes to the provision of healthcare section (12) states: ‘differences between men and women in the provision of

It’s fairly common knowledge that women tend to live longer than men. In fact, the Office for National Statistics has been conducting surveys for years and a boy baby born in current times can expect to live to 77.7 and a girl baby is expected to live to the ripe old age of 81.9 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=168 Apparently however, the gap has come down over the last 27 years from 6 years to 4.2 year which suggests men are taking better care of their health but there is still a clear gap. For this reason, women actually pay slightly less for life insurance

Credit ratings and car insurance, two staples of modern life and two things that cause many people no end of worry! And, just to add to that worry, insurance companies are now using your credit score to help determine the cost of your car insurance! Which means that you could be a model driver, with no claims or convictions and may never even have had so much as a parking ticket, but if you mess up your balance transfers or miss a couple of credit card payments shortly before renewing your car insurance, you could find yourself paying an inflated

One snowy morning I was slowly gearing myself up to head into the office and I thought I’d catch the news while supping a cuppa. I was browsing channels for news when I saw Rip Off Britain in the guide. “Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Jennie Bond return to their journalistic roots to expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.” I’ve only ever caught a glimpse of this once before in the past and I flicked onto it again to see what the girls had to say this time. One section of the show was about