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Survey: 10% uplift to damages “insufficient” to cover extra LASPO costs
Tuesday, 24 March 2015Nearly three-quarters of personal injury specialist solicitors say the 10% uplift in general damages introduced to compensate for the LASPO changes is insufficient to cover the additional costs that claimants now have to meet, according to a survey.
Tags: ATE, LASPO, legal expenses insurance
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, Latest news, News, Uncategorized
When a problem isn’t really a problem
Thursday, 19 June 2014A survey carried out by the Employment Lawyers Association in conjunction with the Law Society, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and Motor Accident Solicitors Society has confirmed that non-panel firms suffer detriment when legal expenses insurers exercise their right to appoint panel firms to deal with claims.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in Blog
LEI – why the Law Society is acting
Thursday, 15 May 2014In a guest blog, Robert Khan, head of law reform at the Law Society, responds to Litigation Futures’ Editor Neil Rose’s recent blog questioning the survey of solicitors’ experience of LEI.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in Blog
ARAG disappointed by Law Society “survey bias”
Friday, 9 May 2014Leading legal expenses insurer ARAG has expressed its disappointment with the Law Society survey on before-the-event insurance, and suggested that the drive may be to aid law firms not on insurers’ panels.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in BTE, News
Legal expenses insurers have good reason to avoid non-panel firms, leading provider claims
Tuesday, 29 April 2014Law firms which are not members of legal expenses insurers’ (LEI) panels charge “significantly higher” fees which “dwarf” those of panel firms, a leading LEI provider claimed yesterday.
Tags: insurers, Law Society, legal expenses insurance, LEI
Posted in BTE, News
The LEI wild goose chase
Friday, 25 April 2014My heart sank yesterday when the Law Society launched a survey on legal expenses insurance (LEI), “following feedback from our members about problems with LEI-funded cases, in particular securing freedom of choice under LEI”. The Employment Lawyers Association, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and Motor Accident Solicitors Society are also in on the wheeze.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in Blog
Price-sensitive consumers eschewing LEI and thus access to justice, warns DAS
Monday, 14 January 2013Consumers seeking the lowest possible price when buying insurance via aggregators are leading to a drop in take-up legal expenses insurance, according to leading provider DAS. It said this will lead to a significant percentage of the population “being unable to pursue legitimate legal action”.
Tags: legal expenses insurance, LEI
Posted in BTE, News
Insurers celebrate ruling on BTE non-panel rates
Friday, 14 December 2012Legal expenses insurers have welcomed this week’s Court of Appeal ruling about the rates they have to pay non-panel firms. On Wednesday the Court of Appeal said before-the-event providers have to pay an “appropriate” rate to ensure policyholders have a meaningful freedom of choice of solicitor.
Tags: before-the-event, BTE, legal expenses insurance
Posted in BTE, News
ARAG adds Oak Underwriting to enhanced offering for high net-worth portfolio
Thursday, 13 September 2012ARAG, a Litigation Futures Associate, has announced a new partnership with specialist high net-worth (HNW) insurer Oak Underwriting to provide legal expenses and home emergency assistance insurance to its HNW portfolio.
Tags: legal expenses insurance
Posted in BTE, News
ARAG gears up for tax fee protection drive
Monday, 10 September 2012Legal expenses insurer ARAG is targeting growth in the fee protection insurance market after entering into a partnership with Jim Hoyle, formerly of HLI Insurance Brokers (part of the CCV/Towergate Group).
Tags: legal expenses insurance, tax
Posted in BTE, News