The Department for Transport (DfT) «gives every appearance of being browbeaten by the powerful insurance lobby,» argues solicitor Nicholas Bevan, who campaigns for greater protection for road users, in this week's NLJ. (newlawjournal.co.uk)
The goal is to get the issue onto the agenda, and to ensure that whoever is leading the province after June 12th is primed to stand up for accident victims instead of the big auto insurance lobby, and seriously consider repealing the threshold and eliminating or reducing the deductible. (ottawa-attorneys.ca)
But the life insurance lobby had visions of Million dollar signs in their eyes and have used plenty of the inordinate profits that come from selling overpriced products that, by design, almost never pay a death benefit, to insure that no one makes them uncomfortable while they rape and pillage. (hinermangroup.com)