Defending the Public Interest – ATE for Defendants in Defamation Cases
By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 7 minutes 13 seconds) Banks v Cadwalladr [2022] EWHC 1417 Often defendants do not consider the need for after-the-event insurance as those defending defamation claims are often well-funded and resourced publishers who chose to take the risk of paying the claimant’s costs “on the chin.” Some […]
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ATE for Insolvency Cases – Security and Certainty in Uncertain Times
By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 43 seconds) In September 2022 there were 1,679 registered company insolvencies, an increase of 16% compared with the same month last year and 11% higher than the figure for September 2019. The statistics for individual insolvencies are less straightforward and do not yet show […]
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Clinical negligence case study – delayed diagnosis
Multi-million pound settlement for a case previously abandoned This case relates to a delay in diagnosing and treating meningitis and sepsis that settled at a capital equivalent value of £16m. We are pleased to report that one of our major partner law firms in London, Hodge Jones & Allen (HJA), has recently settled a multi-million […]
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Contentious Probate: making a successful ‘1975 Act claim’. Are your dispositions reasonable?
(Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 9 seconds) A look at the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and dispositions being subject to a test of reasonableness in the light of their increasing usage in contentious probate disputes. There’s also a crucial question the court may ask itself, plus a look at ‘What can […]
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Temple Legal Protection Appoint Matthew Best to Its Board of Directors as Director of ATE Partnerships
Temple Legal Protection, a market-leading provider of legal expenses insurance, today announced that Matthew Best joined its board of directors on 9th November 2022. Matthew joined Temple in July 2011 as an After the Event (ATE) insurance underwriter. In 2016 Matthew was promoted to Underwriting Manager and subsequently Senior Underwriting Manager, taking on overall responsibility […]
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Security for Costs and ATE Insurance: Threats, Applications, Endorsements and Amendments
(Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 54 seconds) When a claimant is insolvent or close to being insolvent, whether on a balance sheet or cash flow basis, you can and should expect the defendant’s solicitors to make or threaten to make an application for security for costs. Such recourse for the defendant is entirely right and […]
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Professionally Negligent? Don’t Forget to Discuss ATE Insurance
By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 20 seconds) Clients lose good cases. Clients settle good cases on poor terms because the adverse costs consequences of losing are potentially catastrophic. Solicitors fail to tell clients about after-the-event insurance or enquire if it might be available. These things happen in every type […]
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Fixed Recoverable Costs: Practitioner’s view – It’s not just about the money
(Estimated reading time: 1 minutes 48 seconds) With the FRC regime being excluded for complex and sensitive claims, knowing what will be excluded is likely to cause a number of problems for practitioners, especially within the first few years of the rules coming into effect. Joanne Westbrook from Attwaters Jameson & Hill expressed the following […]
Read More Disbursement funding update – five options, one real solution to the cost of costs?
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 6 seconds) We’re all looking at ways to save money; law firms should be too. Interest rates are climbing and will continue to do so for some time yet. Therefore, it could well be timely to now consider what disbursement funding options are available […]
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