EU’s gender ruling on car insurance has made inequality worse

It said car insurance firms couldn’t discriminate between the sexes ... since then men have seen a four-fold rise in premiumsIn 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 o