Insurance Law Reform

Reports, articles and conferences

Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill
The Bill introduced by Lord Sassoon in the House of Lords on Monday 16 May 2001 - see YouTube video - plus explanatory notes.

The Parliamentary procedure for uncontroversial Law Commission bills
Briefing note May 2011

Consumer Insurance Law: Pre-contract Disclosure and Misrepresentation
The Law Commissions' Final Report and draft Bill on these issues from December 2009

Insurance Contract Law Reform: Bringing the Underpinning Law into the Twenty-First Century
CII Thinkpiece, November 2010

Consumer insurance law – reform at last?
Amicus Curiae Spring 2010

Archaic, unclear & unfair?
New Law Journal 3 July 2009 and 2 October 2009

Blowing their cover - looking forward to the reform of insurance contract law
Solicitors Journal 12 May 2009

The reform of insurance contract law why have consumers waited so long?
Insurance Research and Practice 2008 (2)

CP182 insurance Contract Law: Misrepresentation, Non-Disclosure and Breach of Warranty by the Insured
The Law Commissions Consultation Paper from July 2007

Insurance law - unfair, unclear, archaic and inaccessible?
Amicus Curiae March/April 2006

Protecting the consumer - is there a need for insurance law reform?
A one-day conference on 17 May 2004

Insurance Contract Law Reform
An influential report from the British Insurance Law Association in September 2002

Insurance Law Reform: the consumer case for a review of insurance law
The National Consumer Council's report from May 1997, written by Professor John Birds

Cmnd 8064 - Insurance Law: Non Disclosure and Breach of Warranty
The Law Commission's unimplemented report from October 1980

Cmd 62 - The reform of insurance contract law why have consumers waited so long?
The Law Reform Committee's unimplemented report from January 1957

Media reports

Hope for consumers penalised by ancient insurance law
Andrew Penman, Daily Mirror 17 May 2011

Consumer groups urge insurers to back law reform
Josephine Cumbo, Financial Times 24 September 2010

Insurance law disadvantages consumers making a claim
Emma Simon, Daily Telegraph 7 September 2009