By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 42 seconds) Whether you run commercial disputes, clinical negligence cases or personal injury claims, we know that you want to provide your clients with the best chance of obtaining the access to justice with an agreeable financial settlement. With many ATE and Funding providers […]

Update on the FCA’s Business Interruption Insurance Test Case (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 58 seconds) It is perhaps perversely ironic that, during this second lockdown period we’re currently enduring, the Supreme Court (at the time of writing) has begun its second day of hearing the appeal against the High Court’s Judgment on the FCA’s […]

Depp v. News Group Newspapers & Dan Wootton [2020] EWHC 2911 (QB). By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 18 seconds) Unless you’ve been on Mars this year, you no doubt will have heard a great deal about Johnny Depp’s libel claim against The Sun newspaper. On the 2nd November Nicol […]

By Paul Bonner, Senior Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 30 seconds) Since the Court of Appeal’s Decision in Wood v TUI in 2017, it has been harder for the claimant to succeed in demonstrating causation in relation to their gastric symptoms. The defendant tour operators have had considerable success in challenging both the factual […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 5 seconds) Arbitration can offer litigants a simple and discrete alternative to High Court proceedings; indeed, many contracts stipulate that disputes must be referred to arbitration. It is with that in mind we thought it time to highlight that litigation insurance is available from […]

By Paul Balen Mediator Director, Trust Mediation Ltd (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 7 seconds) Six months in from lockdown, the fall-out for clinical negligence and personal injury practitioners is clear – the lines of communication have been stretched and the courts are log-jammed. Concluding claims as quickly as possible has become a key priority […]