ATE Insurance, The SRA Standards and Regulations 2019 and the importance of judgment Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager at Temple Legal Protection and Paul Bennett (Solicitor and Partner at Bennett Briegal LLP) explore the issues in the context of After The Event Insurance (ATE) in litigation. (Estimated reading time: 9 minutes, 39 seconds) On the […]

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 […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager. Temple has been insuring media and communications litigation cases for many years and is the principal insurer in the ongoing phone hacking litigation. Recently, starting with Data Protection Act claims, we have been turning our minds to see what new issues might be litigated by our media law clients […]

Litigation Insurance for Defendants in Commercial Disputes For commercial disputes there is a perception that litigation insurance is only for claimants – and not for insuring defendants. Here at Temple, the vast majority of our insured are claimants and we are only occasionally asked about insuring defendants. In this article we get under the skin […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager. At the time of writing, predicting the Government’s policy on the whole question of Brexit is next to impossible – and that’s with only 2 months to go before we leave. But in the calmer waters of commercial litigation, charting a course through the rest of this year – […]

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 […]