LifeSearch has called on the ABI and Treasury to halt the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) "ignorant" ruling to ban gender-based underwriting.
The advice firm also raised the question of a protection trade body but acknowledged that in this circumstance it was unlikely it could have succeeded. Tom Baigrie, managing director of LifeSearch, spoke prior to announcing the protection specialist's annual awards, of which Ageas was named best overall provider and Richard Verdin of Aviva, best protection leader. Baigrie railed against the ECJ's decision, saying: "You could start conversations by discussing whether insurance rates can discriminate or whether they do not merely differentiate on mathematically and scientifically proven...
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