We have been offering stand-alone IP cover, including for patents, for several years. However, many CFC customers across our US and UK product lines may not necessarily purchase stand-alone IP cover. That’s not surprising, seeing as intellectual p...

Allergen mislabelling is likely a food manufacturer’s pet hate – should be easy to avoid, but it just isn’t. Why? Your supplier might deliver ingredients which include certain allergens despite your specifications to the contrary. Your labelling s...

As the threats facing international aid workers increase around the world, Yemen consistently stands out as a major venue for aid worker kidnappings. Francesca Fazey explores the combination of factors that have contributed to this threat.

It has been a month of strange trademark news. A local UK convenience store hit the headlines after the owner was threatened with legal action by S...

Last month (22nd May 2017), the US Supreme Court delivered a significant ruling in its verdict on TC Heartland LLC v Kraft Food Brands LLC.

Here is some recent legal news that we didn’t mind sinking our teeth into…

Our new research revealed that over a half of UK based SMEs (50.8%) say that their insurance broker has not raised the issue of cyber insurance with them.

Each year, the European Patent Office releases in-depth statistics about patent applications by country. The results of their research are publishe...

We like to keep you informed about the legal structure and remedies for intellectual property, so we were pleased to discover IP watchdog recently published a very helpful article comparing some interesting differences between IP enforcement in th...

There have been further developments in intellectual property litigation in the USA as San Francisco-based OpenTV, now owned by Swiss digital compa...

A recent case in the Southern District of New York resulted in a loss for luxury brand Louis Vuitton when the provisions of a ‘parody defence’ was...

The biggest development in European patents this year will be the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The UPC is an agreement which seeks to create a singl...

It’s the end of the year and as always, there’s a slew of reviews out there, of everything from movies to albums and songs, to the inevitable ‘fail...

The 2016 Cyber Symposium held at a new location on the edge of the City was our most successful one yet.

We have been kept busy this year, with our broker partners sharing some of the most innovative risks we have ever seen, including a lot of start-up...

Following his election victory earlier this month, the next few weeks will likely see most of President-elect Trump’s time spent formulating priori...

A huge Thank You to all our guests who joined us on Thursday, 27 October for an amazing Halloween bash

Are your clients looking for interesting new ideas to help promote their business at trade shows? Promotional insurance is a class of business that is still not widely known about or understood in the market.