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Mediate or Prolongate? Webinar from our Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Team
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager During 2020, Temple held several well-attended webinars on key legal and costs topics. These platforms have allowed the large number of participants to meet virtually and gain a deeper understanding of the topic in question – whilst allowing us to engage with an audience of like-minded legal services providers. […]
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For litigation funding – what are the ‘must-haves’ you really need?
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 42 seconds) Whether you run commercial disputes, clinical negligence cases or personal injury claims, we know that you want to provide your clients with the best chance of obtaining the access to justice with an agreeable financial settlement. With many ATE and Funding providers […]
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6 insurers, 21 policy wordings and £1 billion worth of claims
Update on the FCA’s Business Interruption Insurance Test Case (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 58 seconds) It is perhaps perversely ironic that, during this second lockdown period we’re currently enduring, the Supreme Court (at the time of writing) has begun its second day of hearing the appeal against the High Court’s Judgment on the FCA’s […]
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How much does someone’s reputation cost?
Depp v. News Group Newspapers & Dan Wootton [2020] EWHC 2911 (QB). By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 18 seconds) Unless you’ve been on Mars this year, you no doubt will have heard a great deal about Johnny Depp’s libel claim against The Sun newspaper. On the 2nd November Nicol […]
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Travel Sickness Claims – A Turn for the Better
By Paul Bonner, Senior Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Since the Court of Appeal’s Decision in Wood v TUI in 2017, it has been harder for the claimant to succeed in demonstrating causation in relation to their gastric symptoms. The defendant tour operators have had considerable success in challenging both the factual […]
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Arbitrate – with our Litigation Insurance
By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 5 seconds) Arbitration can offer litigants a simple and discrete alternative to High Court proceedings; indeed, many contracts stipulate that disputes must be referred to arbitration. It is with that in mind we thought it time to highlight that litigation insurance is available from […]
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Clinical negligence and personal injury claims – mediation in the virtual world
By Paul Balen Mediator Director, Trust Mediation Ltd (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 7 seconds) Six months in from lockdown, the fall-out for clinical negligence and personal injury practitioners is clear – the lines of communication have been stretched and the courts are log-jammed. Concluding claims as quickly as possible has become a key priority […]
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Collaborative protocols, Covid-19 and clinical negligence litigation
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 37 seconds) A recent Law Gazette article was published entitled ‘Covid-19 protocol encourages ‘positive behaviours’ in clinical negligence litigation’ . Having read this article, we asked our Senior Underwriting Manager, Matthew Best for his thoughts on this and Temple Legal Protection’s stance on such […]
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Disbursement funding for commercial disputes – all about the price tag?
By Andy Lyalle, Senior Business Development Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 59 seconds) A few years ago Jessie J sang about ‘shades on your eyes’ and ‘ba–bling ba-bling’ in her song ‘Price Tag’ but, for commercial dispute resolution disbursement funding, is it also all about the price tag? We share our experience from the […]
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