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Levene slams compensation culture in US.

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Lloyd's of London chairman Lord Levene has attacked the way that a wave of litigation has created a compensation culture in the US.

Speaking in Los Angeles he said that the sheer volume of litigation was "pernicious, cancerous and ruinous" and that it was corroding the US economy.

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