Arag Legal Expenses
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.
Referral fee ban could be catastrophic for brokers
Industry experts have warned that brokers reliant on an income stream from referral fees could find the government’s ban disastrous for their business.
Products roundup: Blanc divorces simple from complex at Axa
Amanda Blanc’s long-awaited strategy for Axa Commercial is unveiled this month and she is confident that it is what brokers want and need from an insurer. The division of simple and complex risks certainly seems to make sense and brokers may welcome the…
Products: UK first as Arag develops new ‘divorce insurance’
Heralded as the first of its kind in the UK, Arag has developed a divorce product with two law firms.
News review: January 2011
Groupama announced its plans to transfer the Liverpool and Glasgow-based commercial motor accounts of broker Choice Quote to its sister business Bollington, as part of a restructure of its GUK Broking Services arm.
Arag warns of difficult times ahead for claimants
Arag has warned that radical reforms to the legal aid system and civil litigation could leave many claimants in a significantly worse position.
Risk management/claims: Lord Young slams 'unnecessary' low-hazard risk assessments
Lord Young has called for a stop to low-hazard health and safety risk assessments as part of his review into UK compensation culture.
News Analysis - Insurance 360: Arag voted best legal expenses insurer
Arag has been voted the best legal expenses insurer by brokers in a survey by PB's sister research unit Insurance 360.
Arag service comes out on top in legal expenses insurer questionnaire
Brokers have voted Arag the best legal expenses insurer (LEI) in terms of overall service in a survey by Insurance Age's sister industry insight unit Insurance 360.
Post Intelligence Benchmarking - Legal expenses: Five go forth
Fresh from surveying broker readers, Insurance 360's Peter Joy lifts the lid on the service provided by the UK's five leading legal expenses insurers — as their brokers experience it.
Product review: Typical commercial legal cover blended with EPL
This product has been reviewed by brokers and rated from one to five stars, based on the policy’s key benefits.
ATE: Group Litigation: Collective danger ahead
Ever since the Woolf reforms removed legal aid for civil claims in 1999, a fearsome uprising has threatened, looming as a storm cloud over the insurance industry, writes Ralph Savage.
PB Events: Horses and courses make a great day
Kempton Park saw plenty of action on and off the course at this year's Insurance Race Day.
News Analysis: RTA reforms set to launch
Emmanuel Kenning investigates the changes designed to make personal injury claims from road traffic accidents simpler, quicker and cheaper
Market Moves
A monthly look at who is moving where.
Power Hour: Socially acceptable?
This month's power hour discusses the potential business opportunities of rapidly growing social media and asks how brokers of all shapes and sizes can get involved. Martin Friel reports.
Insurance Race Day: more than just horsing around
The third annual Insurance Race Day is proving a hit with industry movers and shakers keen to mix high-level networking with a spot of racing fun.
Brokers cautioned to take note of fixed-premium IPT exception
Despite the Chancellor's u-turn on the imposition of IPT on intermediary fees, brokers have been warned that they may still apply to add on policies such as legal expenses and breakdown cover.
Arag raids DAS and RSA for new hires
Bristol-based legal insurance firm Arag UK continues its recruitment drive with two further appointments.
Claims double in cold spell for Arag
Bristol-based legal insurance specialist sees calls rise 25% for emergency home assistance
PB Week: Experience is the best teacher
Andy Talbot, sales manager at ARAG, reflects on the year.
Broker EXPO on film
Who has been the most influential figure in the general insurance sector in the last 12 months and why? And have aggregators had a detrimental or positive impact on the industry?
Ex-CII director's firm to close
The venture, which was spearheaded by Peter Knowles, has been impacted by the slump in the housing market