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Dickie Scruggs, the Mississippi lawyer who represented thousands of policyholders in their Hurricane Katrina coverage litigation against property insurers, was recently sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to bribe a judge in a Hurricane Katrina case
In Travelers Insurance Company and Denton Wilde Sapte v Gauri Advani 2012 EWHC 623 (QB) Sir Raymond Jack held that where a solicitor had acted dishonestly and outside the scope of her employment, the terms of the relevant professional indemnity insurance allowed the insurer to recover amounts paid to fund the defence of that solicitor in negligence proceedings
