Updates and Briefing Papers

Climate Change and Insurance Regulation: Preparing for Challenges in 2025

• FOIL

Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing the insurance industry in 2025, transforming industry operating models and how insurers consider their risk assessments, pricing models, and claims processes.

CRU Update

• FOIL

The CRU have launched a new service that allows some claims to be submitted on-line to CRU.

Pre-litigation issues – including PIAB, the statute of limitations and negotiations – Presentation slides

• FOIL Ireland

Supreme Court’s decision in McAleenon

• FOIL
• FOIL Northern Ireland

The case arose from Noeleen McAleenon’s challenge against regulatory authorities for their alleged failure to address purportedly harmful emissions from the Mullaghglass landfill site in Northern Ireland.

E-Scooters: The Irish vs UK Approach

• FOIL

Until recently, the use of e-scooters in Ireland fell within a legal grey area – conscientious operators could not be sure as to whether their e-scooters could be driven legally on public roads, nor as to whether a driving licence, NCT, tax or insurance was required for their use.

Open Justice – Recent Developments

• FOIL

The Open Justice conversation is gaining momentum. On 30 January 2025, the Government finally responded to the Call for Evidence: Open Justice, The Way Forward (May 2023).

FOIL President’s Charity – Support for the Insurance Museum

• FOIL

The Scottish Law Commission’s recent report on damages for personal injury

• FOIL Scotland

The Scottish Law Commission’s recent report on damages for personal injury, published on 4 December 2024, represents an effort to overhaul and modernise the legal framework governing awards of damages for such claims in Scotland.

Updated ruling on Ali v HSF Logistics Polska SP. Z o.o

• FOIL

The recent ruling in Majid Ali v HSF Logistics Polska Sp. Z o.o [2023] EWHC 2159 (KB) has attracted significant attention within legal circles, particularly regarding the principles of illegality in credit hire claims.

Rehabilitation in OIC Claims – A Joint Consultation

• FOIL

The Proliferation of Class Actions in the UK

• FOIL

Recent years have seen a growing trend of claimants coming together to bring claims against a common entity believed to have caused loss to all claimants in the same or similar way.

Professional Indemnity Insurance Market Trends: A Comprehensive Legal Perspective

• FOIL

The professional indemnity insurance (PII) market is a critical component of risk management for legal practices in England. Recent developments in the market have created a more favourable environment for insureds, following a period of high premiums and limited insurer appetite.