Category: Equality Bill
Equality Bill stirs travel insurance anger
The insurance industry could get roughed up abit as The Equality Bill makes its way through Parliament if a meeting of the All Party Group on the topic just before the Christmas break is any guide. The Bill will extend...
Posted by David Worsfold on January 6, 2009 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Financial services beware: the Equality Bill has got your name on it
Confirmation in the Queen’s Speech that the government will be going ahead with Harriet Harman’s brainchild, the Equality Bill, ensures this will be an interesting session for the insurance and financial services sectors. Ms Harman has made it clear that...
Posted by David Worsfold on December 4, 2008 3:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Insurers win key battle on equality
The debate over how insurance premium rates and policy conditions will be covered by the Equality Bill as it starts its Parliamentary passage in earnest shortly took a useful turn in the insurance industry's favour at the end of the...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 6, 2009 11:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Battle lines drawn on Equality Bill
Yesterday's second reading debate for the Equality Bill in the House of Commons confirmed just how tough it is going to be for the insurance industry to get the "clean" exemption from the age discrimination provisions that it has been...
Posted by David Worsfold on May 12, 2009 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Insurers have little to fear from the Equality Bill
I expect a huge amount of heat - and probably very little light - to be generated around the Equality Bill in the coming weeks. Despite the all too predictable complaints about burdens on business at a difficult time from...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 27, 2009 3:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Equality Bill is starting to look tricky for insurers
The Equality Bill is starting to look rather less straightforward than the insurance industry initially hoped.The Committee stage is now underway. Last week and this week they have been taking evidence from a wide range of organisations, including the Association...
Posted by David Worsfold on June 11, 2009 3:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Equality Bill debates will hear exemption plea from insurers
The Equality Bill started its committee stage yesterday: this is where is gets debated clause-by-clause. Nowadays, these committee stages often start with a week of presentations from interested parties and the Equality Bill committee is taking full advantage of that...
Posted by David Worsfold on June 3, 2009 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Plenty to keep the insurance industry occupied in Parliament's final session but what will make it over the finishing line?
The political arguments about the Queen's Speech might still be raging but my plea to the insurance industry is not to be fooled by those into failing to have a good look at what is coming up in Parliament in...
Posted by David Worsfold on November 23, 2009 11:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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