It said car insurance firms couldn’t discriminate between the sexes ... since then men have seen a four-fold rise in premiums
In December 2012 the EU introduced controversial new rules insisting that car insurance companies no longer discriminate on the basis of gender. Until then, men were being routinely charged more than women, but after the European Court of Justice ruled that different premiums for men and women purely on the grounds of sex “were incompatible with the principle of unisex pricing included in EU gender equality legislation”, they had to go – even if it meant women would have to pay more as the gap between the sexes closed.
But what has happened since the rules came into force? Instead of the gap between men’s and women’s premiums narrowing, as expected, it has actually widened. In 2012, men on average paid £27 more for a car insurance policy than a woman, but rather remarkably they now they pay £101 more – nearly a four-fold increase.
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