Act fast on insurance, women urged

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Women are being urged to act swiftly to renew their life insurance policies ahead of new European rules which will ban insurers from taking gender into account from next month.

A ruling by the European Court of Justice last year means that from December 21 insurers can no longer consider a customer's gender when calculating, for example, how much they should pay for their car or life insurance or what their retirement income should be.