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After the Event Insurance

QBE offers innovative, flexible insurance solutions to meet the needs of every kind of law firm and client. Active in the after the event (ATE) insurance market since 1998, the QBE range of products is designed to support the business models of firms while they aim to support their clients’ cases – whether their clients are major multinationals, SMEs or private individuals.

Scope of Cover

QBE’s ATE insurance product covers a wide variety of cases: from personal injury and clinical negligence claims to a broad range of commercial disputes (including insolvency, defamation and intellectual property) to complex litigation, including group actions. Flexibility is key and our standard product can be applied:

  • to court, arbitration or appeal proceedings
  • whether there is a CFA (full or partial) or a private paying retainer
  • with limits of indemnity to suit, whether it is £15,000 or several million
  • as top-up cover, whether to a before the event policy or an ATE policy
  • through delegated authority schemes or as one-off policies.

Our standard coverage extends to:

  • opponent’s costs and own disbursements
  • interim adverse costs orders
  • counsel’s fees where counsel is not acting under a CFA
  • investigative costs
  • the premium
  • retrospective adverse costs and own disbursements.

Additional features to note:

  • premiums are paid at the end of the case
  • premiums are staged, such that there are discounted premiums for early settlement
  • QBE's model is approved by the Court of Appeal
  • QBE can issue bonds should an application be made for a security for costs order.
General Information
Case Studies
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Rocco Pirozzolo Profile
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The fightback – article from Litigation Funding
April 2008
4,230 Kb
Better safe than sorry – article from Insurance Age
April 2007
316 Kb
Rational Selection – article from Litigation funding
February 2007
2,350 Kb

Document Centre
QBE ATE Wording
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QBE ATE Schedule
19 Kb
QBE ATE Proposal Form
37 Kb
Solicitor Application Form - General Commercial
35 Kb
Solicitor Application Form - Professional Negligence
36 Kb
Solicitor Application Form - Clinical Negligence
35 Kb
Solicitor Application Form - Personal Injury
33 Kb
Key Facts
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Key Contact
Rocco Pirozzolo
Senior Underwriter
+44 (0) 20 7105 5169 Rocco.Pirozzolo@uk.qbe.com

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