Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Gender Symbols (Source: Wikimedia)
- Credit: Gender Symbols (Source: Wikimedia)
Crime
Board for the Protection of Human Rights
discrimination
injury compensation
The Hague
Utrecht
Friday, 22 August 2014 - 16:04
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Gender discrimination in injury claims to stop

The Board for the Protection of Human Rights in Utrecht ruled that insurers must not calculate injury compensation for young women differently that for young men, as this would be discrimination. This was ruled in a judgement of such a case, NU.nl reports. In that case a woman was paralyzed and suffered permanent brain damage in an accident when she was a child. When doing the injury compensation calculations, insurer Reaal assumed that the woman would have had children. According to them this means that the woman would only work part time (if at all) between the age of 27 and 37 - leading to a much lower settlement. Earlier this year the court in the Hague ruled that it is reasonable to assume that the woman would have children and not work for ten years. The Board for the Protection of Human Rights researched other similar cases and found that in the case of men it is not assumed that they would have children and work less. That is distinction on the grounds of gender, which is discrimination and therefore prohibited in the Netherlands, NU.nl reports. With that judgement the parents of the young woman can return to the judge regarding the settlement amount.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Popular Utrecht brewery goes bankrupt, but optimism remains for a restart
  • All children "stable" after Annecy stabbing; Two still in critical condition
  • Nearly all of Curaçao hit by power blackout for over 12 hours
  • Amsterdam museum must return Crimean art treasures to Ukraine, Supreme Court rules
  • Heat protocol activated on Dutch roads; Keep extra water, shade in the car, experts say
  • Tata Steel director belongs in jail, lawyer says in first lawsuit against big polluters

Top stories

  • Many households see monthly energy bills fall by 14 percent
  • EU asylum deal a "building block" to reduce influx to Netherlands, State Sec. says
  • Extra public transport to beaches this weekend as summer weather hits
  • Dutch child among six stabbed in random attack on playground in Annecy, France
  • Night train to Amsterdam, Hamburg evacuated after fire breaks out in Austria tunnel
  • Netherlands residents much more worried about their financial position

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content