A golden opportunity

Nigel Salisbury argues that the increasingly litigious social climate in which we find ourselves presents a significant market opportunity for brokers and insurers in extending professional indemnity cover to a range of professions that now find they have a clear need for this protection

What do the following have in common - a firm of translators sued for £20,000 for errors in a technical brochure that required reprinting; a landscape designer sued for £30,000 for the costs of emptying and relining a poorly specified golf-course water feature; and a funeral director sued for £14,000 for having incinerated valuable heirloom jewellery along with the cremated deceased?

The firms in question - unlike many companies outside the closely regulated traditional professions of law

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