IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-39723-2_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Cost War and Its Casualties: Frogs and Temperature

In: Access to Justice

Author

Listed:
  • John Peysner

    (University of Lincoln)

Abstract

In order to understand what motivated the insurance industry in its response to recoverability, the author carried out a survey of the weekly trade journal Post Magazine and Insurance Week (established in 1840) from 1999 to 2002.2 This review of the leading trade journal spanned the period from the start of the Woolf reforms to the announcement and introduction of recoverability and the developing conflict leading to the Callery decision. The journal consists of editorial comments as well as contributions from leading insurance professionals. The journal reported views from a range of interests, mostly liability insurers, in particular those offering motor cover, but both legal expense and after the event insurers (whose interests might well differ unless they were subsidiaries of the same insurance group) and the views of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), a very powerful trade and lobbying organisation. This desk research was triangulated with interviews from participants on both sides of the dispute.

Suggested Citation

  • John Peysner, 2014. "The Cost War and Its Casualties: Frogs and Temperature," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Access to Justice, chapter 9, pages 93-105, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39723-2_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137397232_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39723-2_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.