Jackson Review
LSB referral fee advice slammed as 'mistaken'
The Ministry of Justice has been urged to disregard the "mistaken" advice of the Legal Services Board and ban referral fees, as lawyers and insurers joined forces to criticise the decision.
Editor's comment: Passing the hot potato
And so the buck gets passed once more. Another week, another non-decision on referral fees. This week it was the turn of the Legal Services Board to fight shy of a ban, deferring future responsibility for dealing with this questionable practice to…
Interview - David Bott: In the Apil hotseat
With claimant lawyers facing radical change over the next year following the Jackson Review, David Bott has a turbulent introduction to his tenancy as the new Apil president. Leigh Jackson talks to the man whose job it is to steady the ship through these…
LSB referral fee plans criticised
The Legal Services Board's recommendation to retain referral fees has been criticised by lawyers and insurers.
LSB: Referral fees to be retained
The Legal Services Board has recommended that referral fees be retained but managed more closely.
Legal expenses - ATE: End of the road?
With the government giving the green light to implementation of Lord Jackson's civil litigation reforms, Leigh Jackson details the adverse reaction of legal expenses insurers and whether this sounds the death knell for the ATE market.
Claims Club dinner & awards 2011
Jonathan Swift, chairman of the judging panel and Post's editor-in-chief, welcomed guests to the 2011 Claims Club annual dinner at Grand Connaught Rooms, London by praising the hard work that the claims industry does and explained that in aiming to…
UK hailed as whiplash capital of Europe
The Association of British Insurers has today called for a clampdown on the UK’s "pain in the neck culture" that it says has made the UK the whiplash capital of Europe.
Postbox: Backing reforms was not taken lightly
Your leader of last week 'Are some more equal?', coupled with the comments reported from Elite Insurance over the ABI's support for the recommendations of the Jackson Review, highlights the delicate balance a trade body needs to strike between…
Editor's comment: are some more equal?
Tales of the unexpected it is not, but the level of animosity now being directed by legal expenses insurers towards their supposedly protective big brother — that's to say, the Association of British Insurers — may have taken some by surprise.
Baker quits post over Jackson frustration
Legal Expenses Insurance Group director Tony Baker has resigned from his post after becoming frustrated with the government's stance on the Jackson Review.
Elite threatens ABI withdrawal
Elite Insurance has become the latest legal expenses specialist to threaten withdrawal from the Association of British Insurers over the trade body's support of the Jackson Review.
Broking supplement - Private motor: The drive to succeed
Aggregators, question marks over referral fees and a squeeze on margins are all challenging those in the intermediated personal lines space. But, as Leigh Jackson reports, it is not all doom and gloom.
Legal update: the final call for success fees?
Success fee recoverability may be facing extinction but recent cases continue to clarify and confirm why there is widespread support for reform,explains Michael Feakes.
View from the top: Jackson is only the start
Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance stands squarely behind Lord Justice Jackson's recommendations in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs.
EL campaigner stands for London election
The former MP and leader of the Access to Justice group Andrew Dismore has been selected as a Labour candidate for the Greater London Authority election.
Interview - Jonathan Evans MP: APPG - priorities, progress and provocations
Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance & Financial Services Jonathan Evans talks to Mairi MacDonald about the group's priorities, progress and provocations.
Apil chairman blasts MoJ proposals in inaugural speech
Incoming president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers David Bott was set to slam Ministry of Justice proposals to make personal injury victims meet legal costs from their compensation payouts in his inaugural speech today (14 April).
Premex integrates Eclipse software system
Medico-legal services provider Premex has integrated its appointment booking system Vu Direct with software firm Eclipse’s personal injury case management system Proclaim.
News analysis - Jackson: getting the personal injury balance right
Plans to abolish the recovery of success fees and ATE premiums mean the balance between claimants and defendants should be redressed. Andrew Parker analyses the immediate and long-term effects of Ken Clarke's announcement.
Lloyd's motor result reflects 'torrid' time
Lloyd's finance director Luke Savage has said Lloyd's 2010 UK motor insurance result reflects the "torrid" experience of the whole market within that class of business. Its motor book reported an underwriting loss of £520m (2009: £83m loss) and a…
Postbox: industry needs government help on fraud
The landmark civil judgment in the case of Israr Hussain Shah, as reported in Post over the past fortnight, highlights a worrying issue for the industry.
Death knell for ATE insurance as jackson recommendations accepted
The government's decision to implement the Jackson reforms has sounded the death knell for after-the-event insurance, legal expenses insurers have admitted.
MoJ mediation plans “music to insurers’ ears”
Ministry of Justice plans to promote a wider use of mediation is “music to the ears” of insurers and claimants, Inter Resolve has claimed.