Accountant's Liability By Richard Highley The Accountant's Liability Collection brings you topical news and insight of interest to accountants, actuaries, trustees and other financial professionals and their professional indemnity insurers.
Autonomous Driving By Peter Allchorne What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
Aviation By Alex Stovold Topical news and insights of interest to aviation insurers and industry stakeholders on key strategic, commercial and regulatory developments.
Banking and finance dispute resolution By Jonathan Brogden For the latest news and comment on banking and finance disputes.
Brexit: practical implications By Mathew Rutter Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Commercial health By Anne Crofts This collection looks at the latest news and comment on commercial contracting healthcare law. With the health and social care sector under pressure to generate efficiencies, individual organisations must look at how they commission and deliver…
Construction Risks By Mark Roach Welcome to the Construction Risks collection. This space is used to report upon issues of interest to those who seek to allocate, manage and reduce construction risks on behalf of contractors, as well as insurers of construction risks.
Causing Serious Injury by Careless Driving - A Significant Development in Road Traffic Prosecutions By Ash Sharma 28 June 2022 sees the introduction into UK law of the offence of "causing serious injury by careless driving". This will mean that drivers who may previously have been punished by a fine and points on their licence for careless driving which caused…
Housebuilder tip of the month: Opting to tax for VAT By Mary Waters HMRC’s processing times for option to tax notifications has recently increased leading to some transactions progressing before a copy of an option to tax acknowledgement letter has been received from HMRC. From 30 May 2022, HMRC have commenced a…
Learnings and Reflections from the Independent Neurology Inquiry By Natasha Moffett The Independent Neurology Inquiry has now published its’ findings. The Inquiry Chair, Mr Brett Lockhart QC, delivered a statement announcing the publication of the Inquiry Report on 21 st June via live stream which is available to watch back on…
Liquidated damages in commercial health projects By Hamza Drabu Liquidated damages (“LDs”) clauses are a common contractual feature in high value and/or complex commercial health projects. They are a useful tool for both customers and suppliers. From a customer’s perspective, they incentivise suppliers to…
The UK Innovation Strategy: Learnings and reflections from 2021/2022 By Kelsey Farish In July 2021, the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy published a policy paper entitled The UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it (the “Strategy”). The purpose of the Strategy is to set out…
MEES Regulations – A Timely Reminder During the chaos of the last 2 years, it is likely (and understandable) that energy efficiency matters took a back seat for landlords who were grappling with a host of Covid related legislation and the general uncertainty in the industry. However,…
NHS Resolution publishes report following thematic review of clinical negligence claims relating to diabetes and lower limb complications in England By Stuart Wallace NHS Resolution has published an important report on lower limb claims (the majority of which involving amputations) arising from diabetes in England, with the aim of improving patient care and reducing the number of claims being made.
Cannabis Claims – A Growing Issue for Insurers By Mark Gallagher At DACB, we are continually working with insurers and the industry to assess and counter emerging issues around claims and fraud. One such issue is the escalation of cannabis farm claims related to landlord or property claims. Cannabis farms…
Supreme Court Decisions on Occupier Test – ignore the facts, focus on the bigger picture! By Richard Bell In a much anticipated decision of the Supreme Court in no less than three appeals by telecommunications operators, Lady Rose made clear today that the much litigated question as to who was the occupier of land for the purpose of paragraph 9 of the…
Actionable or acceptable? – The narrow line between sport and Tort By Richard Rowe Background Personal injury claims arising out of incidents between participants in sport is an area that has provided some difficult issues over the years given the interplay between playing within the rules and customs of the sport and negligent…