Gender Equality in Insurance Services

30 May 2012 in Warsaw at Hilton Hotel at ul. Grzybowska 63 a Conference entitled ‘Gender Equality in Insurance Services’ was held. The Conference was organised by PIU and the leading re-insurers: GenRe, SCOR, SwissRe and RGA.

During the Conference, the impact of the judgement of the European Court of Justice of 1 March 2011 in the case C-236/09 (Test-Achats) and the European Commission guidelines published on 13 January 2012 on the activity of insurance companies were discussed. The participants of the Conference referred to practical legal and actuarial problems, as well as risk assessment and creation of products, which will appear as a result of application of tariffs equal with regard to gender.

The speakers proposed practical solutions to facilitate the adjustment of the current practice to the requirements of new regulations, with particular attention paid to the continuation of agreements entered into before 21 December 2012.

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