“The financial sector will no longer be allowed to use gender as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and therefore the price of premiums and benefits from Friday 21 December 2012.”
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Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“Members of the public faced with the prospect of bringing a claim for defamation
or breach of privacy against a large media organisation will in the future be
protected against having to pay the other side’s costs if the case is lost, the
Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th December 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Male pensioners will lose up to £10,000 in retirement income due to the
introduction this week of European Court rules banning sex discrimination by
financial firms, a report warns.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Women who take out car or life insurance could find themselves paying as much as £500 more when an EU ruling on gender comes into force on Friday.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of a young woman is suing the country’s biggest out-of-hours GP provider and one of its nurses, whose failures meant her fatal condition was not diagnosed, because neither will accept liability in a test case over legal responsibility in a privatised NHS.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A legal expenses insurer could seek to limit the level of costs and expenses payable under an insurance policy in respect of a solicitor’s services for which it was liable to the insured provided that the freedom to choose a lawyer guaranteed by Council Directive 87/344/EEC, as transposed into English law by regulation 6 of the Insurance Companies (Legal Expenses Insurance) Regulations 1990, was not rendered meaningless.”
WLR Daily, 12th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Legal expenses insurers have welcomed this week’s Court of Appeal ruling about the rates they have to pay non-panel firms.”
Litigation Futures, 14th December 2012
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“Controversy still rages over whether the Jackson reforms are a coherent set of proposals that will rebalance a system where claims and costs are out of control, or if they represent an assault on access to justice for people whom ‘no win, no fee’ represents the only hope of redress for a wrong inflicted on them.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 13th December 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.gov.uk
Light on Line Ltd v Zumtobel Lighting Ltd [2012] EWHC 3376 (QB); [2012] WLR (D) 373
“Service of a redacted insurance certificate as proof of “the amount of the premium paid or payable” in a claim for an additional liability on a detailed assessment of costs was sufficient to comply with paragraph 32.5(2)(c) of the Costs Practice Direction supplementing CPR Pts 43–48.”
WLR Daily, 29th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Complaints about a company based in India which sent text messages about reclaiming payment protection insurance (PPI) and compensation for accidents have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).”
The Guardian, 12th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court has overturned a cost judge’s ruling that a redacted after-the-event (ATE) insurance certificate did not comply with the Costs Practice Direction (CPD) because it did not show what premiums would have been payable had the case concluded earlier than it did.”
Litigation Futures, 6th December 2012
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG and others v Samskip GmbH (Case C-456/11); [2012] WLR (D) 329
“On the proper interpretation of articles 32 and 33 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (OJ 2001 L 12, p 1), the court of a member state in which recognition was sought of a judgment by which a court of another member state had declined jurisdiction on the basis of a jurisdiction clause was bound by the finding—declaring the action inadmissible—regarding the validity of that judgment.”
WLR Daily, 15th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The identity theft and credit card insurance company CPP faces a £33.4m bill to pay fines and compensation to customers following the conclusion of a long-running investigation by the Financial Services Authority.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Personal injury lawyer says bill making workers prove company negligence favours insurance industry at expense of taxpayer.”
The Guardian, 8th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As you may know, the original Court of Appeal decision in Simmons v Castle on the 10% uplift in general damages was revisited after representations by the ABI and APIL.”
NearlyLegal, 11th October 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
Gore v Stannard (trading as Wyvern Tyres) [2012] EWCA Civ 1248; [2012] WLR (D) 266
“Where a party brought a claim relying on the strict liability rule under Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330, the claim being founded on an outbreak of fire said to be caused by another party having brought a ‘thing’ on to his land which then ‘escaped’, close attention would have to be given to the precise ‘thing’ which was said to have ‘escaped’ when analysing whether the principles relied on in fact applied. It remained a moot point whether there was any room for the classic principles to be reformulated in fire cases.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that a 10% uplift on general damages will not apply to cases begun before 1 April on a conditional fee agreement (CFA).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th October 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Britain’s private motor insurance market has been referred to the Competition Commission to investigate whether drivers are being hit with artificially high car hire and repair charges.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man and a woman from Birmingham have been found guilty of manslaughter after a 40-year-old Leicester man died following an explosion at a kebab shop.”
BBC News, 26th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has won a legal battle over an insurance company’s refusal to pay up for a fire it claimed was deliberately started by his partner.”
The Independent, 17th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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