When the Minister talks about a disproportionate burden, does he accept that for years and years, those insurers—quite properly, because of judicial decisions—avoided making payments which we all now agree that they should have been making and which the Bill is designed to ensure that they will make in future? When he talks about a disproportionate burden, has his department made any estimate of how much money those insurers saved for all those years?
Mesothelioma Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Wills
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 5 June 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Mesothelioma Bill [HL].
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