Underwriters at Lloyd’s are currently facing a class action in Australia. Omni Bridgeway is funding the action, which is being run jointly by Berrill & Watson and Gordon Legal.

A collective action against Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd and its parent companies is underway. Litigation Capital Management, a UK funding leader, has entered into a litigation funding agreement to pursue the case.

Clarion, the Leeds-based law firm, has recently announced three new promotions. Stephanie Kaye, formerly senior associate, was promoted to legal director.

Around 400 companies are breathing a little easier now that insurer Hiscox has reached a settlement agreement with the Hiscox Action Group. The amount of the settlement will remain confidential, according to both sides—though a recent test case in January 2021 suggests that the total payout from the six largest insurers should be around GBP 1.2 billion.

Are claimant-focused legal firms and litigation funders intentionally creating a rise in class actions? That’s one assertion of CMS’s European Class Actions Report 2021, which claims that even powerhouse corporates should be wary about litigation funding’s impact.

On the latest episode of the LFJ Podcast, Ben Phi, Partner at Australian class action law firm Phi Finney McDonald, discussed his recent response to the Senate Economics Committee in regard to the proposed regulation of class actions. Ben outlined his response to the ‘rising D&O insurance’ and ‘social inflation’ arguments being made by Big Insurance, and the negative consequences that could emerge if large class actions are over-regulated.

The concept of ‘conscious uncoupling’ was widely mocked when actor Gwyneth Paltrow mainstreamed it during her divorce from musician Chris Martin. In short, conscious uncoupling is a five-step process that helps couples separate and divorce in a less acrimonious, more amicable way.