Planet Insurance

Most of the coverage on insurance has concentrated on anti-age discrimination and its potential impact on income protection insurance, with the abolition of a set retirement age. This will come into effect in 2012 – assuming the government of the time passes the necessary commencement order. But there is an area where the industry scored a big win. One of the purposes of the Equality Bill was to harmonise discrimination law across different types of discrimination. Here there was a lot of pressure from the age and disability lobbies to adopt the same principles across the board as apply ...