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Wed 03 Mar 2009Eagle Star loses bid to halt discrimination inquiry
Insurance company Eagle Star has lost a High Court bid to stop the Equality Tribunal investigating complaints of discrimination by a woman after her income continuance policy was loaded by 100 per cent, allegedly due to the insurer’s view she was clinincally obese.
Bernadette Treanor (49) claims Eagle Star insinuated to others in 2002 her policy was loaded because she was overweight and due to “other incorrect reasons”, including an alleged imputed heart condition.
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