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 […]

By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 37 seconds) A recent Law Gazette article was published entitled  ‘Covid-19 protocol encourages ‘positive behaviours’ in clinical negligence litigation’ . Having read this article, we asked our Senior Underwriting Manager, Matthew Best for his thoughts on this and Temple Legal Protection’s stance on such […]

By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 17 seconds) A previous article I wrote in June 2019 ‘Is disbursement funding interest recoverable’ attracted, forgive the pun, a lot of interest – but the subject itself has remained a very grey area with clarity in short supply. The SCCO has, unhelpfully, recently […]

By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 13 seconds) With the NHS being at the heart of all of our lives, the funding of it appears to be an everyday topic. The idea of suing one of their Trusts for the levels of compensation that were previously awarded may no longer […]

Medical Reports and the Small Claims Limit Increase – A prejudice for vulnerable road users? (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 42 seconds) By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager Seeking to reduce the number of fraudulent negligence claims is understandable, but funding medical reports for vulnerable genuine victims of negligence can be a big issue. What […]

The Court of Appeal in West v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Demouilpied v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust yesterday handed down a defining judgement on the application of the new reasonableness and proportionality rules. This follows the 2015 decision in Nokes –v- Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust [2015] EWHC B6 (Costs) where Master Leonard […]