Brussels, 03/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - In calculating benefit to be paid following an accident at work, member states' laws must not take account of an actuarial factor based on the statistically shorter life expectancy of men compared with women, when application of such a factor results in payment of benefit to a man that is less than what a woman of the same age would receive in a similar situation.
In its judgment on Wednesday 3 September, in case C-318/13 X, the Court of Justice of the...