A bigger picture
The 2005 figures emerging from Financial Services Authority returns reveal that the motor market has shifted further away from its goal of underwriting profitability. Lynn Rouse asks an expert what this means for the future
Last year, David Laxton, director of ratings services at Standard and Poor's, predicted that the motor market's overall 103% combined ratio would fall away another point or two. Unfortunately for the
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