The due diligence needed when choosing ATE insurance and funding providers
What risks are you prepared to take? Litigation funding and ATE insurance providers are pooling their resources in order to provide litigation ‘solutions’. This is leading to increased choice; but has made comparing them on a like-for-like basis more difficult in terms of the necessary due diligence required. As a consequence, there are risks that […]
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Sean Fayle joins Temple Legal Protection as Senior Underwriting Manager
Specialist legal expenses insurer Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce Sean Fayle has joined the business as a Senior Underwriting Manager. Sean has worked in the legal expenses insurance industry for over 20 years and brings to the Temple Legal Protection team a wealth of experience as well as a commitment to the highest […]
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AvMA 30th Annual Clinical Negligence Conference 29th – 30th June 2018
Temple Legal Protection will be exhibiting at the AvMA Clinical Negligence conference which takes place next week at the Hilton Brighton Metropole. If you are attending please come and visit us on stand 37 for your chance to win a bottle of superb Veuve Clicquot champagne. Members of our clinical negligence Underwriting team will be […]
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Football’s Financial Fouls
Football’s Financial Fouls As you settle down to watch the action on the field during the forthcoming FIFA World Cup, bear in mind that you will be watching players who, together, are valued at many, many millions of pounds. And whose professional careers are matters of hugely valuable commercial interest to the intermediaries supposed to […]
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Insurance Premium Tax Increase 2017 – end to transitional period 1st June 2018
As you may remember Insurance Premium Tax increased to 12% on 01 June 2017. As part of this most recent increase imposed by the government the transitional period for existing ATE policies incepted before 01 June 2017 was set at 12 months ending on 30 May 2018. The effect of this to policies will be […]
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Temple Legal Protection secures new insurance backing from RSA
Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce it has signed a new five year contract for underwriting provision with RSA, one of the largest and strongest insurers in the UK. The arrangement sees Temple Legal Protection provide its customers with a comprehensive range of legal expenses insurance products with limits of up to £2.5m, backed […]
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Are the NHS, BMA and NAO guilty of making misleading clinical negligence claims?
The NHS, supported by the British Medical Association (BMA) amongst others have made strong claims in a letter to the Justice Secretary that the legal costs of clinical negligence claims are crippling the NHS. Similar comments were made by the National Audit Office (NAO) in September last year and yet the case doesn’t hold water. […]
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2018 – a year of opportunity
2018 will be a year of opportunity for those responding to change says Matthew Pascall: Senior Underwriting Manager, Temple Legal Protection. As we move forward into 2018, I share some insights likely to affect litigators over the coming months. Some will be anecdotal, some technical and, hopefully for the reader, all of significance in some […]
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Temple Legal Protection 2017 Review
This year has been challenging for the legal industry: pre-LASPO cases are in decline and the new legislation is now being applied with some cases finding their way to the appeal court; abolition of tribunal fees has led to increased risk exposure for employers without appropriate BTE cover and legal services; and there have been […]
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