Jackson report stokes controversy

Emmanuel Kenning summarises industry reactions to recommendations that could shatter the after-the-event insurance market

"Muddled" and "contradictory" were the words that Paul Asplin, chief executive officer at DAS Group, used to describe Lord Jackson's report - Review of Civil Litigation Costs - when it was published in January. He also warned that the recommendations move the UK toward the worst parts of the US legal system, "opening the floodgates to the sort of trivial and vexatious claims that are all too familiar to American courts and insurers".

Alexandra Anderson, partner at City law firm Reynolds Porter

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