EQUITABLE LIFE COLLAPSE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INQUIRY GERMANY IRELAND VICTIMS MEPS SKINNER
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH government financial controls will be examined by a special European Parliament committee of inquiry into the near collapse of Equitable Life, and the slashing of its pensions. The parliament has launched its probe following complaints from policy-holders, especially the around 15,000 non-British clients, mainly from Germany and Ireland. Humberside Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis has been appointed rapporteur, coordinating reports: she told Accountancy Age: "Some of these victims have been told to take a hike by the UK ...
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