The recent economic recession and prolonged real estate market slump are triggering a rise in the number of malpractice or professional liability claims lodged against law firms this year. A new study by insurance broker Ames & Gough finds lawyers’ …
AXA UK has announced that it will no longer accept referral fees from personal injury lawyers and has issued a call for whiplash injury reform to eliminate fraud within the industry. The announcement noted that the company “has been a …
Synergy Professional Associates has a new lawyers professional liability program, which focuses on small firms with a specialty in intellectual property. The new facility targets firms from one to 10 attorneys who have a concentration of their practice in the …
KnightBrook Insurance Co., a premier specialty insurance company underwriting niche program business, will be entering the legal malpractice insurance market in Pa. The KnightBrook Legal Malpractice program in Pa. is managed and underwritten by The Walnut Advisory Corp. The policy …
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has been selected by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) as the exclusive provider of lawyers professional liability coverage for its members. Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc. will remain NLADA’s broker. Through the …
Nearing the close of its regular legislative session, Kentucky lawmakers enacted bills designed to crack down on fraudulent auto personal insurance claims and bring the state in line with new federal tax requirements for the surplus lines insurance industry. Lawmakers …
Insurance recovery law firm Anderson Kill & Olick has opened a new office in Connecticut. The office, in Stamford, gives the firm the ability “ability to represent policyholders on the insurance industry’s home turf,” it said. Charles T. Lee, a …
Plaintiffs’ lawyers battling BP Plc in the oil-spill litigation may be united in the desire to make the company pay, but they’ve started fighting over whether to try to rein in Kenneth Feinberg, who runs BP’s $20 billion oil-spill victims’ …
