HCC Professional Indemnity Division have today announced that with immediate effect they will be writing Professional Indemnity insurance with limits of indemnity up to £10,000,000. They also announce that they have launched a new ‘Excess Layer’ facility with limits of indemnity up to £5,000,000. We deal directly with HCC and can offer these increased levels …
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has launched a new initiative to help combat the rising number of fraudulent and exaggerated insurance claims. Called the ‘Insurance Fraud Register‘ it comprises of a database to hold the details of all known fraudsters. It will be operated by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. An ABI report in 2011 …
Business Insurance is an insurance policy that you can buy to protect your business against loss or damage to property or against claims made against your business from somebody else. If you run your own business or you are looking to start a new business then you may have been thinking, ‘what is business insurance?’. …
A shopkeeper from London has reportedly been ordered to pay nearly £112,000 in compensation after a customer slipped on some fruit outside of his shop and sustained injuries. Shop owner Onkar Singh Gill was taken to court by regular customer Samira Hassan, 57, after she fell outside his shop in Greenford, West London. She claims …
A mortgage advisor has reportedly won a libel lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, and has received substantial damages as compensation for the false claims made against him. Peter Carron, who is understood to have run Primrose Associates, filed the lawsuit after the newspaper ran an article headlined “Primrose Pimpernel”, …
The electronics and technology company Apple is reportedly being sued for patent infringement by a firm called Noise Free Wireless, which claims that the iPhone and iPad maker violated its patents relating to noise cancelling technology. The lawsuit, which was filed recently in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, claims that …
A class action lawsuit worth a reported $30 million has been filed after a shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario collapsed, killing two people and injuring countless others. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the people injured, emotionally scarred or left jobless by the incident, claims that the June 23rd roof collapse of the Algo …
The owners of a hotel in the Aberdeenshire village of Auchenblae in Scotland could be forced to pay out a six-figure sum in compensation to a woman who was injured in an explosion on the premises in 2009. Danielle Ormond, who was a barmaid at the Drumtochty Arms at the time of the January 2009 …
The professional social networking website LinkedIn is reportedly facing a class action lawsuit from users after it experienced a major security and data breach last month. The lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of lead plaintiff Katie Szpyrka and potentially thousands or even millions of other LinkedIn users, centres on the security that occurred in …