Women drivers could see insurance premiums skyrocket

Obviously Marilyn Monroe isn't going to care, but an EU ruling set to be made tomorrow could see women drivers suffer from increases in their insurance premiums of up to 25 percent as judges at the European Court of Justice decided whether insurers are practising sexual discrimination.

There is currently provision within EU law for insurers to discriminate if sex is a definite factor in a person's accident risk, but the deciding judges are in for a game of legal top trumps as the European advocate-general argues the provision is trumped by the Lisbon Treaty.