Category: Legal

Why has the ABI rejected the Law Commission?

Reform of insurance contract law is long overdue. Relying on the Marine Insurance Act 1906 as the legal basis of all modern day insurance contracts - life and general - is just plain daft. It has long since ceased to...

Lots of laws but where are the pleural plaques?

The government has declared its legislative hand for the next session months ahead of the usual autumn Queen's Speech. Largely dismissed by commentators as a gimmick to cover up the electoral disasters swirling about its head, the programme has plenty...

BA travel insurance row shows why consumer insurance law reform is needed

The day after the Law Commission published its Consumer Insurance Bill we are faced by a very good example of why it is needed as a row has broken out over how far travel insurers are obliged to cover people...

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David Worsfold

David has been a financial journalist for 30 years and is currently Group Editorial Services Director at Incisive Media.