Hartford stones board weighs insurance
Here in this city long a synonym for insurance, women’s rights and small groups in their opposition even harder in an already difficult battle to ban what they claim, discrimination based on sex companies insurance.
Here in this city long a synonym for insurance, women’s rights and small groups in their opposition even harder in an already difficult battle to ban what they claim, discrimination based on sex companies insurance.
They say that insurers discrimination against women, sometimes to pay higher contributions, especially for health insurance, because of their sex, and try what they call Eigenkapital””Versicherung.
Unerbittlich”Notre vision is that prices must be established on the basis of appropriate criteria: Driving record, non-smokers smoking, high-stress, work, etc. - not on the sex of a person,’’said Jacqueline A . Zachary, Connecticut coordinator of the National Organization for Women.
”The point is equality, rather than money,’’said Catherine M. Blinder, spokesman for the state of the Standing Commission on the Status of Women, has developed legislation on equity Connecticut. “It is an economic issue”
Insurance companies, however, claim that sex is a valid and necessary factor for use in determining risk. They have pointed out that women generally less pay than men for cars and life insurance, because statistics showed that the driver and safer to live longer.
They argue,”, ‘Oh, the principle ,”’, said John H. Blair, the president of the Insurance Association of Connecticut. ”This is an economic issue, not a problem of discrimination. This law would be to the detriment of women.”
Equity legislation has been approved for all forms of insurance in the two states and for all-political in three others. The legislation, which came in a battle to the General Assembly, is particularly controversial in Hartford, birthplace of the automobile and accident insurance and that the origin of 13 insurance companies, including Aetna Life and Casualty, Hartford Insurance Group and the Travelers Companies.
More than 53000 people are in the insurance industry in Hartford. Strength of receipt of a strong
If the General Assembly approved the legislation, women’s rights, groups in other countries would probably be encouraged to make such laws.
”The industry is quite against, and this is a very influenital entry in Connecticut,’’said Bill’s sponsor, representatives of Richard D. Tulisano, Rocky Hill Democrat, is co-chairman of the Committee on Justice, where the legislation has been introduced.
Connecticut is considered an important condition for the success of the initiative laws. ”It would have a strong symbolic impact for the rest of the country,’’said Leslie J. Brett - the executive director of the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, a nonprofit organization to serve the public interest law firm specializes in discrimination based on sex.
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