Around the nation Sex Bias on insurance proscribed Montana
Despite strong objections of the insurance industry, Montana is the first country to prohibit discrimination based on sex or family status in all types of insurance and pension funds.
Dir Ted withdrawal, a Democrat, signed the bill on Tuesday.
The legislation was amended by several women’s rights groupsThe legislation will be effective only if October 1, 1985. The law is it illegal for insurance companies on the basis of a difference tables on sex or family status. That is to say, for example, an end to a decline in automobile insurance rates for women, because they statistically fewer accidents.
But it is also changing the way insurance companies to pay benefits on policy, over a period of one year. Many measures, women, who pay a lower rate because, statistically, live longer and they live.
”Sex discrimination is illegal in all other areas - employment, education, credit - and it is time that we illegally in the field of insurance,’’said Bill’s sponsor, Jan Brown, a democrat .
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