Equitable Life

Labour's 50p top tax rate will remain for five more years, breaking a pledge that the £2billion-a-year raid on earnings would be temporary.

The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board has launched an investigation into the conduct of an accountant in connection with matters related to the financial statements of Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1999.

The Government has rejected renewed calls to provide compensation to Equitable Life policyholders who lost out when the insurer was forced to close to new business in 2001.

Equitable Life members have been given the go-ahead to take the Government to court over its failure to offer full compensation.

MPs today accused the Government of seeking to delay paying compensation to victims of Equitable Life's near collapse.

Equitable Life investors fighting for compensation say the UK Government is more interested in the settlement rights of Gurkhas than it is in their plight.

The Government is under fire for sidestepping compensation for all investors in Equitable Life.

A policyholders support group has launched a High Court challenge against the Treasury for its failure to adequately compensate victims of the near collapse of insurance mutual Equitable Life nine years ago.

MPs are challenging the Government's decision to ignore the Parliamentary Ombudsman's recommendations on how to compensate victims of the Equitable Life scandal

The Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Isle of Man Depositors Action Group (KSFIOMDAG) has called for an inquiry into the actions of the FSA and the Isle of Man regulator (FSC), along the lines of the investigation into the collapse of Equitable Life.