The government, nonlife insurance companies and traffic accident victims need to further discuss whether the state reinsurance provision of the compulsory automobile liability insurance system should be abolished before the system is revised, a Transport Ministry panel said in a report submitted Thursday to Transport Minister Jiro Kawasaki.
Japan’s insurance firms have been calling on the government to abandon the reinsurance clause as a deregulatory measure.
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