(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 […]

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 […]

Friday 14 October 2022 marked time-up for one of our longest serving members of Temple Legal Protection. After 22 (twenty-two) years, Paul pulled the plug on his employment with us and made his decision to retire. With 40 years’ plus experience in the insurance industry, we have certainly lost an extremely experienced colleague. Paul has […]

By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 3 seconds) With the GB pound sinking to an all-time low against the US dollar during the government original budget proposals – what else could our leaders do to make things worse? Well, for the legal sector, guess what… Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly the […]

(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 23 seconds) In Primekings v King the Court of Appeal recently confirmed the validity of the approach in Graham v Every [2015] 1 BCLC 41, [2014] EWCA Civ 191 to tackling unfair prejudice claims under s994 Companies Act 2006. It must now be shown that there is a ‘causal connection’ […]

(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 0 seconds) Many arguments have been advanced since LASPO attacking the recoverability of After the Event (“ATE”) insurance premiums, but the recent decision in Dance v East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors [2022] EWHC B9 (Costs) has found that the ATE premium of £5,266.01 was payable in […]