Insurance claims

Verisk Partners with DAC Beachcroft on Claims Software Platform

 Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, today announced that international legal services firm DAC Beachcroft has deployed the verify™ claims management platform to provide its lawyers with direct, real-time access to more quickly and efficiently resolve […]

Opinion

Opinion: Ireland’s Insurance Fraud Party Will End With a Miserable Hangover

Straight talking from the Editor: Nobody likes paying insurance. There, I said it, plain as a pikestaff, and just like proposing free beer on Fridays as part of my General Election campaign for the Let’s-Have-a-Party […]

Insurance Brokers

Automated World? Not Yet, as L&G Says Advisers Still Valued By SMEs

Advisers are championing business protection with the UK’s SMEs, according to the latest iteration of Legal & General’s ‘State of the Nation’ research. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of SMEs which took out a business protection policy did […]

Legal

Legal Update: Interesting Judgement on Replacement Hire Car Case

An important judgment was handed down last week at Nottingham Crown Court involving which potentially has significant implications for the insurance industry. The case centres on a car accident in 2016 and the claimant had […]

Legal

Fraud: Footballer’s Dodgy Claim Wins Him a Red Card

Semi-professional footballer Richard (Richie) Allen, aged 37, has scored a spectacular own goal after a court ruled he made a dishonest claim for whiplash following a car accident. Horwich Farrelly, the leading specialist insurance law […]

Legal

CLS Launches Public Sector Procurement Insurance for Companies

CLS Risk Solutions, a leading MGA for legal indemnity and transactional property risk solutions, has launched its Public Procurement Insurance for the broker market.  The policy has been developed after a ten-fold rise in enquiries […]

Legal

Legal News: Horwich Farrelly Expands Training Contract Scheme

Horwich Farrelly, the leading specialist insurance law firm, continues to invest in the next generation of legal professionals after awarding training contracts to twelve employees across the business. This latest round of achievements takes the […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Legal Update: ACSO Makes Key Hires to Advisory Committee

The Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO), the trade body which represents the interests of consumers in the civil justice system and the organisations who support those consumers, has appointed two heavy hitters from the […]