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The head of personal lines at Ignite Specialty Risk has argued that standard after-the-event indemnity limits are being outgrown by higher-value claims and group actions, and that insurers need to…

Lawyers at Signature Litigation have argued that the UK government’s latest consultation on the opt-out collective actions regime must raise the certification bar without loading additional cost and delay onto…

Victoria’s contingency fee regime is producing court-approved rates that track third-party funder commissions almost precisely, according to the Australia chapter of Chambers’ Litigation Funding 2026 guide. According to the Chambers…

The UK Financial Ombudsman Service has ordered litigation lender Novitas Loans to refund all interest and charges and halve a borrower’s capital liability after finding the firm funded both parties…

Boston private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners is in advanced talks to take a stake in insurance defence firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman through a management services organisation, in…

Crestline Investors has closed its European Capital Solutions Fund II at $625 million in commitments, roughly 75% larger than its predecessor vehicle, with litigation finance named among the alternative asset…

Amazon has revised its Conditions of Use to require consumers pursuing mass arbitration claims to disclose whether third-party litigation funders are backing them. The updated terms, effective 15 August 2026,…

Omni Bridgeway has reported a sharply lower bottom line for FY26, with net profit after tax falling 89% to A$45.9 million even as statutory revenue rose 57% to A$106.5 million….

A commentary piece argues that the momentum behind third-party litigation funding disclosure laws has come from broad business coalitions rather than any single industry, pointing to Ohio as the template…

A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposal to require third-party requesters for ex parte reexamination to name all real parties in interest has drawn a sharply divided response, with the…

Ireland’s centuries-old prohibition on third-party funding has become the practical barrier to collective redress claims against the technology companies that base their European operations there, with only one class action…

Administrators to collapsed litigation funder Woodville Consultants Limited are investigating allegations that the company used money raised from new investors to pay promised returns to earlier ones, and have told…

The Unified Patent Court has ordered a newly formed patent claimant to post €200,000 in security for costs after concluding that the entity was economically assetless because its patents, licences…

Insurance rating agency Demotech has called for a structural change to the way property and casualty insurers report loss costs, arguing that the current composite format masks the effect of…

A new annual study of large jury awards has recorded the steepest year of nuclear verdict activity since 2009, and it places the erosion of tort reform — including rules…

The seven celebrity claimants in the failed privacy action against the Daily Mail have been ordered to pay costs on the indemnity basis and to make a payment on account…

Hundreds of struck-out rugby head injury claims have been granted relief from sanctions in principle after the players switched solicitors, in a ruling that also records the appointment of independent…

Leslie Perrin, chairman of Calunius Capital, has argued that the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s developing approach to litigation funding agreements poses a more immediate threat to the UK’s opt-out collective actions…

LB Capital, a specialty finance company providing pre-settlement litigation funding nationwide, has announced a planned $30 million institutional capital raise to support the expansion of its litigation finance platform. As…

Newly filed accounts for Barings Limited, the north-west England claims firm known as Barings Law, show a business carrying substantial litigation funding debt at high interest rates and now seeking…

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a consumer warning on high-risk mini-bonds and loan notes sold by unregulated firms, pointing directly to the collapse of a litigation funder as an…

A new investigation has reconstructed how Woodville Consultants, the Welsh litigation funder that collapsed into administration in July 2026, raised in excess of £300m from individual investors to bankroll law…

The law firm at the centre of the largest group claim in English legal history is being sued by one of its own funders, in a dispute that turns on…

A new academic study of more than 74,000 US jury verdicts and settlements has found that civil liability costs are rising faster than general inflation — and that the effect…

Two months after North Carolina became the first US state to ban commercial litigation funding outright, the nationwide wave of copycat prohibitions that some predicted has not arrived, according to…

A former Republican member of Congress is calling on the White House to use existing Treasury authority to force third-party litigation funders to identify who is behind the money they…

The directors of collapsed UK car-finance claims funder Woodville were soliciting fresh investor money through a newly incorporated vehicle less than a month before the business entered administration, according to…

An investigation into the funding dispute behind South Africa’s long-running “Please Call Me” litigation has detailed a series of adverse findings against the insolvency practitioner who has controlled one of…

Consumer legal funding company Legal-Bay has reported that Pfizer Inc. and plaintiffs’ leadership have entered into a settlement program intended to resolve a substantial share of the federal lawsuits alleging…

Frankfurt-listed jewelry retailer elumeo SE has disclosed that its wholly owned subsidiary Juwelo Deutschland GmbH has entered into an agreement with a litigation funder and filed a damages claim against…