News: Ombudsman Watch.(Airtours Plc pilot Andrew "David" Walton and Sun Life Assurance of Canada are involved in a case)

Pensions Week, April, 2003

David v Goliath

Folk wisdom would have it that the office of the pensions ombudsman can be a soft touch and that it is tough out there in the courts for the little man pitted against the Goliaths of this world. In today's case Andrew ('David') Walton takes on Sun Life Assurance of Canada (SLA) in the Court of Appeal. SLA is one of the North American life insurance Goliaths. The David in question suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome (as do the reserves of many of life assurers). For those purists who believe this column delivers cheap and cheerful legal reporting on equally cheap and cheerful justice dispensed by the ombudsman (and should not involve itself with the rarefied matters decided by the higher courts, let alone the Court of Appeal) I simply point...

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