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24 Apr 2013
OPINION: A European court ruling on the way insurance premiums are taxed will not only burden insurers with increased costs and extra work but will undermine the EU's attempts to create a single market for insurance.
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23 Apr 2013
Small and medium-sized online retailers can benefit from a "network of experts" at "discounted rates" by taking out cyber liability or data breach insurance policies, an expert has said.
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14 Feb 2013
An engineer can be held liable for a drop in the value of a property during a period of delay caused by him, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
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13 Feb 2013
FOCUS: The decision by the Supreme Court last month that legal professional privilege would not apply to advice from non-lawyers confirms how important it is for insurers to maximise the value of legal privilege.
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11 Jan 2013
The Financial Ombudsman plans to take on 1,000 new case workers in the next financial year in order to deal with an "unprecedented" number of complaints relating to mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), it has said.
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21 Dec 2012
Restricting before the event (BTE) insurance cover for legal fees to a prescribed rate will not breach an insured party's right to choose its own lawyer, providing that the prescribed rate is reasonable, the Court of Appeal has said.
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29 Oct 2012
Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of insurance products that protect against the risks posed by data breaches and liability for other cyber incidents, an expert has said.
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21 Sep 2012
Insurance company LV= has announced that it is to offer "gender neutral rates" on the insurance cover it provides from the beginning of December, three weeks before EU law requires it to do so.
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13 Sep 2012
Individuals that make false insurance claims will have their details added and stored on a new 'Insurance Fraud Register' (IFR) for five years in a bid by the insurance industry to crackdown on fraudsters.
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05 Jul 2012
A "package" of new laws proposed by the European Commission will increase the protections available to consumers when they purchase certain retail investment products, it has claimed.
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