By Nicholas Ellor, Senior Underwriter. (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 59 seconds) In June this year we held, in conjunction with Legal Futures a roundtable event which was attended by a group of highly experienced litigation lawyers. At that meeting they expressed some of the concerns their clients had with taking out ATE/litigation insurance. One […]

Insights on Unfair Prejudice Actions and Access to Disbursement Funding By Nicholas Ellor, Senior Underwriter. When setting up any business, the principal founders will inevitably have to trust each other in seeking achieving an agreed commercial objective. If that turns out not to be the case and the business relationship breaks down, under company law […]

By Nicholas Ellor, Senior Underwriter. Insurance distribution activities cover a number of undertakings such as “advising on” and “arranging deals” in contracts of insurance; therefore embracing litigation/after-the-event insurance. These activities used to be called “insurance mediation activities”, however, the Insurance Mediation Directive has been repealed and replaced by the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The regulatory […]

By Nicholas Ellor, Senior Underwriter. It has been reported in the news recently that the Road Haulage Association has brought a claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of road hauliers overcharged when they bought or leased trucks from certain major European truck manufacturers. They are seeking compensation in excess of £6,000 per truck […]

Specialist legal expenses insurer, Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce the appointment of Nicholas Ellor as a Senior Underwriter to join its commercial underwriting team. Nicholas brings with him twenty years’ worth of experience working as a solicitor in London on both contentious and non-contentious company commercial and corporate matters. Having been a practitioner, […]