Zurich has cut its English and Welsh legal panel in half after a three-month review.
The 14 successful firms, from an original list of 28, were informed last week. The insurer has moved from having five legal panels for the separate areas of its business to creating one central panel.
In Scotland the insurer has dropped three of its five law firms.
Zurich has confirmed that all of the firms that lost out in the panel review will continue to do run-off work. The new panel is operational from January 2004.
Opinion
Contempt of court – showing disrespect for the authority of the Queen’s judges – is a familiar concept to the public. High-profile punishments doled out by judges for breach of non-molestation orders, for throwing laughing gas into the court’s ventilation duct or (in an extreme case) against jurors for refusing to determine a defendant’s guilt, […]
