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If funding costs deserve recovery, so do adverse costs insurance premiums

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The Civil Justice Council’s recommendation that third party funding costs should be recoverable in exceptional circumstances raises an important question: if that principle is accepted, why should adverse costs insurance premiums be treated any differently? In this article, Rocco Pirozzolo suggests that these funding costs and premiums should be considered within the same framework. A […]

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Rocco Pirozzolo appears on a panel discussing how to streamline the litigation funding and insurance process

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Harbour Underwriting’s managing director and underwriting director Rocco Pirozzolo was recently on a panel with Locke Capital’s managing director Nick Pontt and Miller Insurance’s Head of After the Event (ATE) insurance James Gowen-Smith, discussing ‘The litigation funding and ATE insurance lifecycle: A roadmap to success for lawyers and clients’. The event took place at Miller […]

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Rocco Pirozzolo joins expert panel to discuss litigation insurance and its relationship with litigation funding

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Our managing director and underwriting director Rocco Pirozzolo was on an expert panel put together by the Litigation Finance Journal to discuss issues at the intersection of litigation insurance and litigation funding The event took place online on 14 June, and Rocco’s fellow panellists were Stephen Kyriacou, Jr, Managing Director and Senior Lawyer, Aon; Boris […]

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What litigation trends can we expect in 2023?

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Litigators predict a boom year in 2023. As history shows us, widespread disruption in the global economy, as we are seeing now, means legal claims are more likely to arise and be pursued. Underwriter David Chase examines the types of claims we can expect to see in the coming year With the UK and wider […]

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Dispute insurance – do you have enough cover?

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Whatever the type of insurance, if there is a loss, there are two questions to consider immediately. Firstly, do you have cover and, secondly, do you have enough cover? This is as true for dispute insurance as any other form of insurance but, unfortunately, many claimants have a flawed approach to arranging cover. In this […]

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Harbour Underwriting hosts Insure TV round table on dispute insurance

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Rocco Pirozzolo was joined by a panel of industry experts to discuss the current state of the dispute insurance market and what the future holds The round table discussion was filmed by Insure TV and featured Maurice MacSweeney, Director of Litigation Funding and Sales Planning at Harbour Litigation Funding, PJ Kirby KC of Gatehouse Chambers and […]

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