Professional Indemnity Insurance - The Key Developments

Introduction

With ever-increasing levels of professional indemnity insurance claims, particularly ones involving solicitors, insurance brokers and those involved in the construction industry, it is timely to consider recent developments in PI insurance law.

Barrister Alison Green will consider professional indemnity insurance claims on insurers and how to advance and counter them.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will include in its discussion the following:

• Interpretation of solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance in the light of the Court of Appeal decision in Discovery Land Co v Axis Specialists 2023 and what amounts to condonation of fraud so far as solicitors and other professionals are concerned
• Extent to which success fees can be recovered under solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance cover following the Court of Appeal decision in RSA v Tughans 2023
• Extent to which insurers of “successor” legal firm are obliged to indemnify claimants in respect of claims against prior solicitors’ practice in the light of Leggett v AIG 2025
• Duties of insurance brokers on placing insurance in the wake of the Insurance Act 2015 as considered by the judiciary in Norman Hay PLC v Marsh Ltd 2025, Hamsard v AE Insurance Brokers 2024, and George on High Ltd v Alan Boswell Brokers 2023 and Infinity Reliance Ltd v Heath Crawford 2023
• Coverage of different parties in project insurance in the light of the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Sky UK & Mace v Riverstone 2024