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Consumer Insurance: Claims and Complaints Handing During the Covid Pandemic
Two weeks ago, we wrote on the guidance issued by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service in relation to business interruption insurance here: www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk/business-interruption-insurance-handling-claims-and-complaints-during-the-covid-19-crisis/ Consumer insurance policies pose a similar challenge for the management of claims and complaints in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Like business interruption claims, policy coverage will […]
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Air Bridges Over Troubled Water?
Holidaymakers and the travel industry wait with bated breath for the government’s now long delayed announcement on the immediate future for cross-border travel in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. So far, we have had to content ourselves with leaked plans masking a distinct sound of silence from the government. For many the dangling conversation […]
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Think before you serve – When service by post during lockdown is unreasonable
Melanie Stanley v London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2020] EWHC 1622 (QB) Howard Cohen of Farrar’s Building recently succeeded before Knowles Julian J. in setting aside judgment in a claim for breach of the Data Protection Act/GDPR, Misuse of Private Information, Breach of Confidence and Interference with Private and Family Life under Article 8 of […]
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Business Interruption Insurance: Handling Claims and Complaints During the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic has precipitated a surge of claims under business insurance policies. According to the Financial Conduct Authority, most SME policies have only basic cover for business interruption as a result of property damage. As a result, insurers are unlikely to be obliged to pay out in the majority of cases. Nevertheless, even where […]
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Josh Hedgman reduces six-figure claim to £941 and secures partial disapplication of QOCS after three-day remote trial
Josh Hedgman was recently instructed to act for the Defendant during a remote trial in a combined property damage and personal injury claim. The Claimant brought proceedings arising from a flood to her home after the Defendant’s agents had damaged a kitchen pipe. The Defendant had effectively admitted a liability as a result of that event. The leak […]
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Farrar’s Building Covid-19 Court Protocols & Guidance Summary
Since lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister on 23rd March 2020, Courts and circuits have had to develop their own guidance and protocols for deciding which cases will be heard remotely and by what means. They have had to do so rapidly and in the face of an ever changing environment of Government guidance […]
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Queens Bench Guidance
Please find the latest Queens Bench guidance for hearings from June 15, before QB Masters, here.
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Updated Civil Listing Priorities W/C 25.05.20
For an update of the civil listing priorities during the current pandemic, please click here.
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