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Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority join forces to intervene in a landmark professional indemnity insurance case

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 2 2012

The Law Society of England and Wales and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have been granted leave by the High Court to intervene in the case of Godiva Mortgage Limited v Travelers Insurance in which Travelers is arguing that it is entitled to cap cover by aggregating claims made against its insured, Willmett Solicitors, a Berkshire firm now in liquidation

Solicitors Regulation Authority issues guidance on PPI claims

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 19 2012

On 4 January 2012, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA) issued guidance to solicitors on their professional duties when dealing with claims relating to mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI

Advocate General gives opinion in relation to the insurance of injuries caused by unauthorised drivers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 5 2011

This case (Case C-44210, Churchill Insurance Company Limited v Benjamin and Tracy Evans v Equity Claims Limited) which arose out of two references to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) made in separate cases before the English courts, concerned an issue unique to the system of vehicle insurance in the UK

Bill introduced to reform the regulation and operation of the motor insurance market

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 28 2011

On 13 September 2011, Jack Straw MP introduced the Motor Insurance Regulation Bill (Bill No.229) to Parliament under the Ten Minute Rule

Court of Appeal rules on assessment of damages for personal injury in motor accidents

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 3 2010

In Clinton David Jacobs v Motor Insurance Bureau 2010 EWCA Civ 1208, the Court of Appeal held that where a person is injured by an uninsured driver and is entitled to recover from the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB), that person is entitled to recover damages assessed according to English law, rather than the law where the accident occurred

Court of Appeal orders retrial in luxury car credit hire case

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2010

In Darren Bent v (1) Highways and Utilities Construction Ltd; (2) Allianz Insurance Plc 2010 EWCA Civ 292, the Court of Appeal was asked to order a retrial of the first instance decision of Mr Justice Yelton sitting in Cambridge County Court

English High Court finds that Rome II applies to a motor compensation dispute

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 4 2010

The High Court ruled, in Clinton David Jacobs v Motor Insurers' Bureau 2010 EWHC 231 (QB), that under European Union Regulation 8642007 (Rome II), Spanish law applied in the case of a UK resident seeking compensation for serious injuries sustained in Spain, at the hands of an uninsured driver, then resident in Spain

City lawyer sues Jesuit school for £5 million alleging sexual abuse

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 24 2009

City lawyer, Patrick Raggett, is suing the Jesuit run school he attended for £5 million in damages alleging sexual abuse in the 1970s by the now deceased Father Spencer, a priest at the school before it closed in 1978

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