John Towers (businessman) Industry Corporation (SAIC). Towers was heavily criticised for his role in the company's demise, and the Phoenix Consortium's conduct relating to Rover Group was initially referred to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), although after initial investigations the SFO concluded that no further action would be taken. Following publication of a government report into the failure of MG Rover, Towers - along with the other directors of Phoenix - have been disqualified from holding any company office in the United Kingdom or have undertaken not to do so. Towers, together with the other members of PVH, ran MG Rover into the
The Equitable Life Assurance Society to the government's reply. In August 2009 Sir John Chadwick issued an interim report. Sir John is designing a scheme to help the "hardest hit" by measuring the losses suffered in agreed cases of maladministration with those of a comparable company. In the Queen's Speech following the formation of a Conservative-LibDem coalition government in 2010, the Equitable Life (Payments) Bill was announced. The bill will secure compensation for nearly a million policyholders (UK-wide) hit by the near-collapse of the insurer Equitable Life. The Government also announced that the final report from Sir John Chadwick in relation to Equitable Life would