Why isn't insurance risk rated against shoe size?
If insurers are no longer allowed to charge women lower car premiums than men under EC law, why don't they use shoe size instead? It is highly-correlated with sex and therefore actuarially almost equivalent.
Asked on 23 March 2013 by AE, Barton, Cambs
Answered by
Honest John
Because some pompous Eurocrat will relate it to deliberate evasion of the all-important EC Directive.
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