ARAG Legal Services
ARAG plc is an internationally successful, quality insurer, independent and family owned - providing access to justice since 1935. We provide an innovative and comprehensive range of legal expenses insurance and assistance products to brokers, underwriting agents and insurers.
Our products allow brokers to offer legal protection to businesses, families, motorists, and landlords and our range of assistance products include Home Emergency, Landlord Emergency and Motor Breakdown.
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Caution urged for company Christmas parties
While the return of the company party is most welcome, employers need to be careful in the face of stubbornly high Covid-19 case numbers and the recently discovered Omicron variant. This content provides guidance for employers still planning to hold in-person Christmas events this year.
Scots QOCS off the blocks
LASPO’s fundamental transformation of personal injury litigation only extended to England and Wales, leaving Scotland QOCSless, until now. This blog highlights how ARAG ensured its partner firms in Scotland were properly equipped to look after their clients under the new regime.
Q&A with Jonathan Bassey, ATE Account Manager, ARAG
As ARAG’s North of England ATE Account Manager, Jonathan Bassey works with firms in the East Midlands and North-East of England. In this blog, Jonathan shares his views on how the legal landscape has changed since 2017, how the sector responded to the pandemic and what the next year has in in store.
Getting medical negligence practitioners around the table
ARAG’s Talk with the Experts series of roundtable events sought to shine a spotlight on how the pandemic has affected clinical negligence practice and what the longer-term impacts may be. This blog highlights some of the key points raised during the discussions.
Maternity compensation in the crosshairs
A new threat to justice has emerged in a report from the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, on the provision of safe maternity care. Read this blog to find out more.
No news doesn't look like good news for OICS
For those unfamiliar with the full and tortuous history of the Civil Liability Act 2018, its much delayed implementation finally came about this year, with the launch of the government’s Official Injury Claim service. This blog discusses whether OICS is currently up to its task.
Uncertainty and principles
This first year and a half of the ‘Twenties’ has seen no let-up in the legislative and regulatory uncertainty to which the personal injury and clinical negligence sector has become so accustomed. Read this short blog to find out more.
Great uncertainty following the pandemic but silver-linings highlighted in clinical negligence roundtable
The impact that the pandemic has had on clinical negligence cases and after-the-event insurance was the subject of the latest in ARAG’s Talk with the Experts series. This blog provides a brief summary of ARAG’s recent roundtable discussion and some of the key points raised.
ARAG engages with FCA to reduce broker burden
While there has been plenty of talk about the FCA’s new rules on pricing and the reporting of value measures data, little of it has focussed on the sale of ancillary products or “add-ons”. This blog highlights how ARAG has engaged with the FCA to reduce the burden on brokers.
15 years extending access to justice
Since we launched in 2006, ARAG has provided access to justice to hundreds of thousands of people who might not otherwise have been able to afford it. This blog reflects on developments over the past 15 years and ARAG’s growth in the legal expenses insurance market.