Mark Pack

Justice for Equitable Life policyholders

By | Fri 14th May 2010 - 9:20 am

David Worsford writes:

The election of a Parliament with a Conservative-Liberal Democrat majority has led to the searing injustice of the Labour government’s failure to compensate policyholders in the failed Equitable Life being remedied.

This has been a long-running saga but at its heart lay the failure of successive regulators to get to grips with the way Equitable Life over-extended itself and offered policyholders guarantees of returns that were never going to be sustainable. Enquiry after enquiry was set set up as the government tied to wriggle away from its responsibilities, which actually have their origins in the period of Conservative government in the early 1990s.

The insult to people who bought the Equitable Life promise in good faith was re-doubled when the almost instant compensation scheme for savers with the collapsed Icelandic banks was announced at the end of 2008.

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2 Comments

  • Fred Carver 14th May '10 - 7:27pm

    I think it is worth mentioning that this is almost entirely down to the tireless campaign of EMAG – the Equitable Members Action Group – and its extraordinary Paul Braithwaite, who also happens to be a Liberal Democrat councillor in Camden.

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