03 October 2014
Insurers in the motor insurance sector may be exerting an unconstitutional influence
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.
Bevan cites legislation and Motor Insurers Bureau agreements that he claims are “peppered with serious Community law breaches” and asks whether the insurance industry, like bankers pre-2008, are “thought to be too powerful to confront”. Why, he asks, were DfT officials unable to explain in a recent case why they authored a clause in 1999 that breached Directives?
