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  • Insurance Litigation And Professional Risk

    Newsletter

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    Welcome to Simmons & Simmons' Insurance Litigation And Professional Risk, our regular bulletin covering the most important cases and issues in professional liability in the UK.

  • Insurance litigation and professional risk - May 2012 Restricted access

    Newsletter

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    Update on recent professional liability events.

  • Where can an insured bring a claim? Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    The Court of Appeal has clarified the pecking order of provisions in the Brussels Regulation relating to jurisdiction clauses in insurance contracts.

  • Hot under the collar Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    The valuer of a historic artefact was not negligent in its valuation, despite the sale of the item two years later for considerably more.

  • Assignments of claims and legal black holes Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    A case in which a company, which had itself suffered no loss, was allowed to pursue an action assigned to it for nominal value.

  • Beware assumptions of an advisor's continuing duty to advise Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    The importance of when the breach occurred and the applicable limitation period in negligence claims where there is a continuing duty to advise.

  • Restricted plans Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    A look at the correct method of assessing damages where solicitors negligently fail to advise prospective property purchasers of the nature of a planning condition.

  • Defence costs recoverable from dishonest solicitor Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    An insurer succeeds in reclaiming defence costs from an employee of a solicitors’ firm, despite no express finding of dishonesty in the underlying proceedings.

  • Turning Bolam on its head Restricted access

    Article

    Submitted: 14 May 2012

    Solicitors can be liable even if their interpretation of a clause is correct, but they fail to report the potential for others to interpret differently.

  • How to win on social media: defamation Restricted access

    Seminar

    Submitted: 10 May 2012

    In this short video Sophie Lessar and Paul Baker look at how social media sites bring potential risks and liabilities relating to defamation claims arising from user generated content.

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