For better or worse?
Raising the retirement age may have been touted as a potential solution to the underfunded pensions crisis, but Doug Hall urges insurers to consider the serious impact this would have on damages levels for loss of earnings claims.
Hardly a day goes by without further publicity of the potentiallydisastrous under-funding of retirement funds. We have seen the issue move
from the financial pages of the newspapers to mainstream
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