Category: Affiliate Members News

CA Affiliate member, Thirdfort’s survey reveals the conveyancing industry’s attitudes to technology adoption and dives into what’s driving the uptake of new, digitalised solutions. The legal sector is embracing technology at an increasing rate and certain developments mean that this trend is likely to continue apace. The HM Land Registry recently announced that they are […]

Coastal erosion is a hot topic at the moment, but it is nothing new. Groundsure have been thinking about coastal erosion for a long time; back in 2015 our Head of Product Development, Dominic Tubb, wrote an interesting piece on coastal retreat at Birling Gap utilising our high resolution historical mapping. Fast forward to today, […]

Brighton is famous for lots of things but surfing is not one. The surf in Brighton is small and infrequent however that does not mean there is a void of impassioned surfers wanting to get in the water at every opportunity. After a long lockdown, the first really swell and surfable waves came to Brighton […]

CA Affiliate member, Howden, the independent insurance broker with employee ownership at its heart, announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire St Giles Legal & Professional Risks (‘St Giles’),a professional indemnity insurance broker specialising in the UK solicitor sector, a market in which Howden is already a leading provider.  This move further cements […]

There has been a lot of speculation1, 2, 3 that the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a reshaping of the property market, as it shifts away from the focus on cities and commuter belts, and moves towards more rural locations as people have proved quite conclusively that their job does not require them to be in […]

CA Affiliate member, Thirdfort, have published a new guide – Know Your Client: How to Choose an eIDV Provider. There has been a significant uptake of Electronic Identity Verification (or eIDV) solutions by law firms across the UK in recent years. This has been driven by the shift to remote and more efficient working practices, […]

DUAL Asset, part of DUAL, the underwriting arm of Hyperion Insurance Group, today announced a long-term collaboration with Accredited Insurance (Europe) Limited, specialist program manager across Europe, for their UK legal indemnity insurance business. This will see DUAL Asset further consolidate its position as one of the leading legal indemnity underwriters worldwide. Accredited Insurance (Europe) […]

Here Dominic Tubb, Head of Product, gives us an interesting insight in to just why you and your clients should be buying a GeoRisk or a GeoRisk + report:      and     Ground stability and Mining and Geo-risk. Living in a temperate climate as we do here in the UK, nothing else out there has quite the […]

Groundsure GeoRisk reports utilise and visualise the latest National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) from the Environment Agency and National Resources Wales to show exactly which areas will be at risk in both the scenario where local coastal defences are funded and maintained and additionally if defences were not present, or unfunded and abandoned (a […]

Shrink swell subsidence is by far the largest cause of natural subsidence insurance claims in the UK. Hot summers can see a surge in claims, with 10,000 claims for £64m recorded in the summer of 20181. Given that most policies have an excess of around £1,000 for subsidence claims, the expense and inconvenience involved in […]