Last week the High Court delivered its judgment in the FCA Test Case. This has been rightly greeted as a victory for many business interruption policyholders whose COVID-19-related claims had been rejected. In adopting causation as the central pleading in its case, the FCA achieved a ruling going to the heart of quantum in persuading…

At Thompson and Bryan we are offering a service for all our partner brokers’ policyholders eligible for FOS adjudication on their claims. We shall be working with the brokers on this project, which will be managed by dedicated colleagues. Necessary preliminaries Before you can make a referral to FOS, insurers must have given you a…

We have given much thought to ways in which we can help once you have a rejection letter from your insurer. There has been much publicity about possible class actions and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it will start High Court proceedings to get what it describes as legal certainty when it…

Every crisis develops in two phases: identification and understanding, followed by action. And in the world of Covid-19 claims we’re now moving into the second. We’ve spent many weeks understanding and analysing policies and, latterly, the repudiation letters, often coming out in common form without regard for the individual policyholders’ policies and circumstances. It’s time…

The path the covid virus is tracking through humankind is well recorded and following the predictions of the medics and scientists who know it. And so it is with its vicarious progress through the insurance world. We have all been able to predict the business effects, the financial shock, and the responses of insurers to…

Life is changing for us all in the Covid-19 crisis, and as well as the immediately felt changes in our personal routines, we see what’s happening in the commercial world. In the insurance sector in particular there have been significant developments since our last update to you. As soon as the insurance implications became known…

It’s been a couple of weeks since we published our last news about the handling of Covid-19 cases. In those weeks many sectors of the insurance market have made their intentions clear, and those intentions are rarely encouraging for the insurance buyer. We are beginning to see the defences offered, frequently in the face of…

It’s only a week or so since we set out our initial thoughts on claims resulting from the virus. In that time the government has introduced relief measures for various businesses, locked the country down and set out its suppression strategy. It has also been a hectic week for us at Thompson and Bryan. In…

Last week the High Court delivered its judgment in the FCA Test Case. This has been rightly greeted as a victory for many business interruption policyholders whose COVID-19-related claims had been rejected. In adopting causation as the central pleading in its case, the FCA achieved a ruling going to the heart of quantum in persuading…

At Thompson and Bryan we are offering a service for all our partner brokers’ policyholders eligible for FOS adjudication on their claims. We shall be working with the brokers on this project, which will be managed by dedicated colleagues. Necessary preliminaries Before you can make a referral to FOS, insurers must have given you a…

We have given much thought to ways in which we can help once you have a rejection letter from your insurer. There has been much publicity about possible class actions and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it will start High Court proceedings to get what it describes as legal certainty when it…

Every crisis develops in two phases: identification and understanding, followed by action. And in the world of Covid-19 claims we’re now moving into the second. We’ve spent many weeks understanding and analysing policies and, latterly, the repudiation letters, often coming out in common form without regard for the individual policyholders’ policies and circumstances. It’s time…

The path the covid virus is tracking through humankind is well recorded and following the predictions of the medics and scientists who know it. And so it is with its vicarious progress through the insurance world. We have all been able to predict the business effects, the financial shock, and the responses of insurers to…

Life is changing for us all in the Covid-19 crisis, and as well as the immediately felt changes in our personal routines, we see what’s happening in the commercial world. In the insurance sector in particular there have been significant developments since our last update to you. As soon as the insurance implications became known…

It’s been a couple of weeks since we published our last news about the handling of Covid-19 cases. In those weeks many sectors of the insurance market have made their intentions clear, and those intentions are rarely encouraging for the insurance buyer. We are beginning to see the defences offered, frequently in the face of…

It’s only a week or so since we set out our initial thoughts on claims resulting from the virus. In that time the government has introduced relief measures for various businesses, locked the country down and set out its suppression strategy. It has also been a hectic week for us at Thompson and Bryan. In…

Last week the High Court delivered its judgment in the FCA Test Case. This has been rightly greeted as a victory for many business interruption policyholders whose COVID-19-related claims had been rejected. In adopting causation as the central pleading in its case, the FCA achieved a ruling going to the heart of quantum in persuading…

At Thompson and Bryan we are offering a service for all our partner brokers’ policyholders eligible for FOS adjudication on their claims. We shall be working with the brokers on this project, which will be managed by dedicated colleagues. Necessary preliminaries Before you can make a referral to FOS, insurers must have given you a…

We have given much thought to ways in which we can help once you have a rejection letter from your insurer. There has been much publicity about possible class actions and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that it will start High Court proceedings to get what it describes as legal certainty when it…

Every crisis develops in two phases: identification and understanding, followed by action. And in the world of Covid-19 claims we’re now moving into the second. We’ve spent many weeks understanding and analysing policies and, latterly, the repudiation letters, often coming out in common form without regard for the individual policyholders’ policies and circumstances. It’s time…

The path the covid virus is tracking through humankind is well recorded and following the predictions of the medics and scientists who know it. And so it is with its vicarious progress through the insurance world. We have all been able to predict the business effects, the financial shock, and the responses of insurers to…

Life is changing for us all in the Covid-19 crisis, and as well as the immediately felt changes in our personal routines, we see what’s happening in the commercial world. In the insurance sector in particular there have been significant developments since our last update to you. As soon as the insurance implications became known…

It’s been a couple of weeks since we published our last news about the handling of Covid-19 cases. In those weeks many sectors of the insurance market have made their intentions clear, and those intentions are rarely encouraging for the insurance buyer. We are beginning to see the defences offered, frequently in the face of…

It’s only a week or so since we set out our initial thoughts on claims resulting from the virus. In that time the government has introduced relief measures for various businesses, locked the country down and set out its suppression strategy. It has also been a hectic week for us at Thompson and Bryan. In…