This is a sincere question. The suggestion made by the hon. Member for Jarrow and a number of others is that the entire profit model of the insurance companies is based on charging big premiums and trying to minimise the number of claims, and that that is how they make money. The suggestion is that the entire Bill is driven by the insurance industry trying to stop anybody making claims. At the same time, perfectly reasonably, you are making the argument that the insurance companies are trying to support claims. How do they—
Civil Liability Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Rory Stewart
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 4 September 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Civil Liability Bill [Lords].
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