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Law ambiguous if client money gets lost in the crunch

Law ambiguous if client money gets lost in the crunch PI insurers (primary layer at least and most excess layers too) relying on the trading debt exclusion would have to address the fact that the word 'Claim' in the main insuring clause is defined in clause 8.2 of the Minimum Terms and Conditions as follows - For these purposes, an obligation on a Firm and/or any Insured to remedy a breach of the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules 1998 (as amended from time to time), or any rules which replace the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules 1998 in whole or in part, shall be treated as a Claim, and the obligation to remedy such breach shall be treated as a civil liability for the purposes of clause 1, whether or not any person makes a demand for, or an assertion of a right to, civil compensation or civil damages or an intimation of an intention to seek such compensation or damages as a result of such breach.

13-Oct-2008

12:03 pm