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[*] B Soc Sc, LLM, LLM (Corp & Com), current National President Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Association; Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Tourism and Leisure Management of the University of Queensland.

[1] Australian Productivity Commission, Australian Productivity Commission Annual Report 2000–2001 (2002), table 9A.1.

[2] Rob Davis, Exploring the Litigation Explosion Myth (2002) APLA Public Position Paper, 8 January 2002. (This paper was tabled at the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance, 9 July 2002).

[3] Trowbridge Consulting, Public Liability Insurance: Practical Proposals for Reform (2002), Report to the Insurance Issues Working Group of the Heads of Treasuries, 30 May 2002; Helen Jones, Indrani Nadarajah and Kate Tilley, Public Liability Handbook Balancing Risk and Opportunity (2002) 81, ch 4.

[4] To support this figure, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Annual Reports for years to December 1998–2000 are used.

[5] Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, ‘Underwriting patterns in General Insurance’, APRA Bulletin, June Quarter 1998, 2.

[6] J Robert Hunter and Joanne Doroshow, The Failure of ‘Tort Reform’ to Cut Insurance Prices (1999).