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SRA stands firm on indemnity cover cut
Tuesday, 9 September 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has hit back at criticism from the Legal Services Board (LSB) over its plans to cut the minimum compulsory cover for law firms from £2m to £500,000.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Bar Mutual complaints referred to financial ombudsman
Thursday, 4 September 2014Two barristers caught up in high-profile disciplinary actions have referred complaints about lack of funding from the Bar Mutual indemnity fund to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), it has emerged.
Tags: Bar disciplinary tribunal, Bar Mutual, Indemnity insurance
Posted in Barristers, Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation
LSB extends time for indemnity decision
Thursday, 7 August 2014The Legal Services Board (LSB) has extended by up to two months the time it can take to decide whether to approve a cut in the minimum indemnity limit for law firms.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Latest news, Legal Services Act, Legal Services Board, Regulation, Solicitors
CML warns of “fast and potentially drastic action” if indemnity limit is cut
Wednesday, 6 August 2014The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has warned that cutting the minimum indemnity limit for law firms could force lenders into taking “fast and potentially drastic action”.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, Legal Services Board
Posted in Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
SRA calls for evidence as indemnity deadline approaches
Monday, 4 August 2014The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has issued a call for evidence on its indemnity insurance reforms, as the Legal Services Board (LSB) continues its deliberations on whether or not to approve a cut in the minimum cover limit.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, Legal Services Board, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Sole practitioners warn of “dire consequences” if indemnity limit is cut
Wednesday, 30 July 2014Sole practitioners have warned of “dire consequences” if the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) goes ahead with its plans to cut the minimum limit for indemnity cover from £2m to £500,000.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, sole practitioners, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news, Regulation, Solicitors
Building society to tell firms: use a rated insurer or you’re off the panel
Monday, 28 April 2014The Yorkshire Building Society group will insist that all law firms on its conveyancing panel have rated professional indemnity insurers from 1 October 2014, it has announced. The rule will apply at once for new applicants to the panel.
Tags: conveyancing, Indemnity insurance
Posted in Indemnity insurance, Latest news
More firms sign up to SRA relationship management pilot
Wednesday, 12 January 2011Seven law firms have joined the second wave of the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) relationship management (RM) pilot. RM may be one of the ways the SRA supervises firms according to its assessment of the risks the firm poses as part of outcomes-focused regulation, which goes live in October.
Tags: Indemnity insurance, OFR, outcomes-focused regulation, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in News, Solicitors
End of single renewal will put focus on firms’ risk strategies, warns top broker
Wednesday, 15 December 2010Law firms’ anti-risk measures are likely to be probed more thoroughly by insurers if the common professional indemnity insurance renewal date is abolished, according to a leading industry insider. He also revealed in detail a number of “creative accounting” techniques used by insurers to reduce their exposure to the assigned risks pool by declaring premiums that may be £60m less than actually received.
Tags: assigned risks pool, Indemnity insurance, professional indemnity insurance, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in Indemnity insurance, News, Solicitors
Partners working in “silos” pose major danger to law firms’ risk management strategies
Monday, 6 December 2010Lawyers working alone in ‘silos’ present serious potential risks to law firms, but limiting partners’ autonomy can harm your practice’s bottom line, a conference heard last week.
Tags: compliance, Indemnity insurance, outcomes-focused regulation
Posted in Indemnity insurance, News