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Liability Risk and Insurance

Incoming APIL president attacks ABI proposals…

Insurers are dragging the legal system back to the “bad old days of hired guns”, according to APIL’s incoming president Richard Langton. He said that shareholders are the centre of insurers’ universe, and that insurers have a “powerful incentive to reduce damages awards and cut out legal representation wherever possible.”

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