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World Insurance Report

North America

London market insurance group Beazley is offering US law firms a risk management package which combines legal malpractice insurance cover as well as professional reputation management advisory services. In order to provide the latter, Beazley is partnering with a range of specialist advisors, including the high profile crisis management firm Kekst and Company. Lloyd Fielder, head of Beazley’s lawyers’ professional liability (LPL) team, explained that a major professional liability claim for a large law firm could cost between $5.0mn and $50.0mn but that the total economic cost will invariably be higher, and can sometimes be a multiple of the insured portion of the firm’s losses. We know that negative publicity can increase the cost of a claim. But it can also transform a manageable problem into a crisis that profoundly affects the law firm’s current and future business, Mr Fielder said.

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