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  • Risk Havens:Offshore Financial Centres, Insurance Cycles, the 'Litigation Explosion' and a Social Democratic Alternative

    Author(s)
    van Fossen, AB
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Van Fossen, Anthony B.
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    Risk havens in offshore financial centres play an increasingly important role in capitalist risk management. They gain strength from cycles in the insurance industry (during hard markets) and from the mystified notion of a 'litigation explosion' that is used to reduce the rights of injured plaintiffs, particularly in times when insurers experience low income from investments. The captive insurance company (which has become the most prominent in Bermuda) and the asset protection trust (pioneered in the Cook Islands) have become important instruments through which the wealthy increase their own security and reduce the compensation ...
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    Risk havens in offshore financial centres play an increasingly important role in capitalist risk management. They gain strength from cycles in the insurance industry (during hard markets) and from the mystified notion of a 'litigation explosion' that is used to reduce the rights of injured plaintiffs, particularly in times when insurers experience low income from investments. The captive insurance company (which has become the most prominent in Bermuda) and the asset protection trust (pioneered in the Cook Islands) have become important instruments through which the wealthy increase their own security and reduce the compensation that they pay for misfortunes that befall the general population. While risk havens promote laissez-faire, the article concludes that democratic socialism provides the most equitable and efficient solution to the problems of risk and insurance.
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    Journal Title
    Social and Legal Studies: an international journal
    Volume
    11
    Issue
    4
    Publisher URI
    http://sls.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/4/503
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 Sage Publications. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. First published in Social & Legal Studies. This journal is available online: http://sls.sagepub.com/content/vol11/issue4/
    Subject
    Criminology
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/6512
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