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Employments Rights Bill incompatible with broken tribunal system
Friday, 11 October 2024The Employment Rights Bill unveiled by the government yesterday is incompatible with the employment tribunal system in its current state, the UK’s leading legal expenses insurance provider has warned.
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Employment tribunal backlog getting worse, HMCTS data show
Tuesday, 8 October 2024The significant problems in the employment tribunal system are getting worse, according to analysis of the latest tribunal figures released by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service.
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DAS posts 8% GWP growth for year leading up to ARAG acquisition
Wednesday, 2 October 2024DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company grew its gross written premium by 8% in 2023, the final year before the company was acquired by the International ARAG Group (ARAG SE) in a deal that was completed on January 2, this year.
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Clinical negligence fixed costs & disbursements
Thursday, 26 September 2024There is continued uncertainty about how and when the regime for fixed costs in Clinical Negligence claims with a settlement value of less than £25,000 will be implemented.
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Fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence claims
Tuesday, 17 September 2024ursuant to Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals from 2017, the civil litigation landscape has recently faced imminent change vis-à-vis fixed recoverable costs (‘FRC’), namely, the amount of legal costs that a winning party can recover from a losing party.
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£3.5 million settlement brings justice to injury victim
Friday, 19 July 2024We talk a lot about access to justice at ARAG because it’s the reason our business exists and a founding principle that has become more and more important in the UK, in recent years.
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Better births
Wednesday, 19 June 2024Reports from the first national inquiry into traumatic births revealed testimony from mothers that was harrowing and often shocking, but probably unsurprising for anyone with even the remotest experience of clinical negligence cases.
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ARAG Group doubles net income
Monday, 20 May 2024ARAG Group again posts significant growth in 2023 (up 7.9 per cent)
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ARAG posts strong 2023 result ahead of DAS integration
Friday, 3 May 2024Market-leading legal expenses insurance and assistance provider ARAG has reported solid growth and profit for the 2023 financial year, during which the company began the process of integrating DAS UK, in the run-up to the completion of its acquisition by ARAG SE.
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No substitute for full compensation
Tuesday, 19 March 2024February saw the publication of not just one, but two reports making significant proposals for the NHS.
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