title: BC human rights tribunal rules on discrimination by London life.
abstract: In June 1999, a British Columbia human rights tribunal ruled that London Life Insurance Company had violated the province's Human Rights Act in 1994 by refusing to sell life insurance (on his own life) to an HIV-negative man on the basis that his wife is HIV-positive.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Elliott
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007352:Insurance, Life / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011287:Prejudice