By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 9 minutes 18 seconds) This is a specially extended article on the recent high-profile Court of Appeal judgment concerning clinical negligence secondary victims. Temple provided ATE insurance for Mr Paul and his family, with Shoosmiths representing them. There is also comment from Phil Barnes at Shoosmiths. […]

By David Stoker, Senior Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 9 seconds) Here at Temple, we share a combined 100 years’ experience of underwriting clinical negligence cases and wanted to share some of that with you. You are the experts, we know that, but we hope to add value to your decision making and save […]

By Sam Knight, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 8 seconds) The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce published a recent article praising the continuing uptake in arbitration to settle civil claims and disputes. Here at Temple we have embraced the future of civil dispute resolution and cover for arbitration under our insurance policy means your client […]

By David Stoker, Senior Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 55 seconds) In mid-November two of our underwriters went to Scotland and visited some high-profile firms to get a feel as to how cost shifting is working since its introduction in June. The general feeling seems to be that it may not be the panacea […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes 44 seconds) Third Party Funding, Group Proceedings and Litigation Insurance – Sections 10 and Sections 20 to 22 of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018. You may feel you’ve already heard too much about Third Party Funding and Group Proceedings, […]

(Estimated reading time: 5 minute 15 seconds) With several challenges currently facing the world of clinical negligence, Temple recently invited a number of leading clinical negligence practitioners to the Royal Society of Arts in London, to discuss some of the hot topics within the industry and how they could be addressed. Myself and my colleague, […]