Roundtable: The Future of Litigation Insurance
In conjunction with Neil Rose at Legal Futures we gathered a panel of leading commercial litigation experts together at a roundtable event to discuss the challenges they face advising clients about litigation insurance and funding. Questions included ‘Should the merits threshold for litigation insurance be lowered?’ and ‘Should insurers embrace new approaches to premium pricing?’ […]
Read moreLawyers suing lawyers: professional negligence claims against personal injury practitioners
By David Pipkin Director, Underwriting Division and Jacob White, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 18 seconds) At a recent Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA) event, sponsored by Temple Legal Protection, our attention was drawn to an article providing the comments of Richard Beaty, counsel from Hailsham Chambers. Richard expressed the view that there was […]
Read moreCommercial mediation in action: tactics following Court of Appeal mandatory ADR order
On 6th August 2019 the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment determining that an Early Neutral Evaluation (“ENE”) could be ordered by the Court for commercial mediation without the consent of the parties. Leading mediator Terry Renouf considers the implications of this decision. In Lomax v Lomax [1] Moylan LJ handed down a brief […]
Read moreAI – artificial Intelligence and actual intelligence: the role of technology in litigation insurance/funding.
By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 7 seconds) If some headlines in the legal and insurance press are to be believed, it may seem that disclosure will be digitized, insurers are over-rated, and the role of actuaries could be archived. Whilst this may be more likely in aspects of consumer […]
Read moreTapping into potential – a decade of CFAs and ATE insurance in commercial litigation
By David Pipkin Director, Underwriting Division and Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 8 minutes, 36 seconds) This article was originally published in the August 2019 issue of ‘Litigation Funding’ magazine. Back in 2009, Litigation Funding published an article entitled ‘The case for business. Are commercial litigators finally waking up to CFAs?’ which […]
Read moreStephen Ryan raising money for The Institute of Cancer Research
Temple Legal Protection are proud to be sponsoring our IT and Marketing Assistant, Stephen Ryan who will be taking part in numerous events to raise money for The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) finishing with the London Marathon in 2022. ICR is one of the world’s most influential cancer research organisations with an outstanding record […]
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