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Safe sex?

The insurance industry has resisted calls for an EU ban on the use of gender in deciding how much people will pay for insurance, but it is not yet off the hook, warns Paul Lang

An EU campaign to outlaw sex discrimination from the insurance industry has been stalled by a powerful coalition of insurers, intermediaries and regulators. Lobby groups representing Europe's biggest insurance industries challenged Article 4 of the new Gender Directive this summer, arguing that there is nothing unfair about setting premiums according to proven differences in risk exposures between the sexes.

The speed and vigour of opposition to Article 4, even more perhaps than the weight of the

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