ABI calls for ARP closure this year

Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) proposals to reform the solicitors' professional indemnity market are inadequate and will increase fears for the future of the market, the ABI warns.

A spokesman for the ABI called for the closure of the assigned risks pool (ARP) this year and more flexible policy terms and conditions.

ABI director of general insurance and health Nick Starling said: "These disappointing proposals are a missed opportunity for the long overdue reform which is so badly needed.

“The proposal to close the assigned risks pool from October 2013 is much too late, and little else has been put forward.

“It is hugely disappointing that they have behaved so timidly considering the advice they received from their advisors, Charles River Associates, last autumn - that immediate and far-reaching change was needed. They have failed to heed the warning.”

Starling went on to label the SRA reforms as a missed opportunity.

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