As I recall, the PC's capped personal injury damages in accidents where there was no permanent or real serious injury... or something like that.
They did this promising lower insurance premiums. Low and behold, it didn't happen, so the Tories passed a law capping rates.
My own premiums are about the same as before, so I'm not sure what this whole exercise accomplished. It probably shifted wealth from the personal injury lawyers to the insurance company shareholders.
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