De meningen verschillen over de solvabiliteit van Equitas, maar duidelijk is wel dat de asbestose- en andere lopende claims, met name uit de Verenigde Staten, in dat opzicht niet bepaald geruststellend zijn.
Opinions differ over the solvency of Equitas but clearly asbestosis and other on-going claims, especially from the USA, give no grounds for complacency in that respect. iii In February 1982 the firm of Chartered Accountants, then named Neville Russell, being the spokesmen for all the Lloyd's auditors at that time, wrote to Lloyd's stating, "the impossibility of determining the liability in respect of asbestosis".