EU ambassadors confirmed yesterday that new dates for the transposition and application deadlines for the Insurance Distribution Directive had been agreed following the European Commission’s proposal to delay them in 2017.
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The court has granted an application for an interim injunction against the claimant’s former employee to enforce non-competition restrictive covenants and confidentiality clauses in his employment contract
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The case of PM Project Services Ltd (PM) v Dairy Crest Ltd (DC) 2016 has shown the implications of court bundles not being properly paginated.
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Syndicates within Lloyd’s market have reduced the amount of cyber risks they are underwriting. With instances of cyber-crime occurring on an almost daily basis and the huge costs of investigating…
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Caroline Dineage has confirmed that proposals to increase the small claims limit will be included in an Insurance Fraud Taskforce report expected by the end of December.
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Last Thursday, the ‘war game’ known as Operation Resilient Shield, first announced in January, took place to test the USA’s and UK’s resilience to cyber-attacks in the financial sector.
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News of the third cyber attack suffered by TalkTalk since February has broken – and this one could be catastrophic as 4 million customers’ personal and financial data may have been accessed.
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Charles Dougherty QC sitting as an arbitrator handed down his award this week in an arbitration brought by a police authority against their insurer...
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… When the yacht was damaged, the insurer declined to pay £13M as there was evidence to show that the claimant believed that it may be worth £7M to £8M.
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