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As Parliament opens, the industry is keen to see flooding and employers' liability addressed and should act now to force the issue onto the legislative timetable.

When MPs return to Westminster at the end of the month, two major
issues affecting the insurance industry are sure to figure
prominently.


The first will be flood insurance. It will be almost exactly two years
since the heavens opened and stayed open for five months, flooding many
towns and villages throughout the UK. The industry gave the government two
years to pull its finger out of the filing cabinet and insert it into a
few modern flood defences. So far not much has happened.


There has been