Trade Voice: Bila’s Dan Brooks on how insureds and insurers should behave when coverage disputes arise
Dan Brooks, British Insurance Law Association committee member and policyholder coverage lawyer at Wynterhill LLP, asks whether it is time for a pre-action protocol for coverage disputes.
Pre-action protocols are statements of best practice that the parties should follow before commencing a claim in the Courts of England and Wales.
Their purpose is generally to: a) focus the attention
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