Treasury confirms no retrospective gender-based underwriting

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The Treasury has confirmed new European rules outlawing the use of gender in underwriting will not affect policies taken out before 21 December 2012.

The European Court of Justice made a ruling on the matter earlier this year, saying it constituted a form of discrimination. In a written ministerial statement today, financial secretary Mark Ho...

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