insurance

T&T Law created a new insurance vertical and added former National Insurance Company general manager AK Singhal to head it.

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) has dissolved its motor accident claims (MACT) vertical with insurance litigation partner Ashutosh Singh and his team of three lawyers, who were handling it, leaving the firm.

Fox Mandal has instructed London firm Penningtons Solicitors to defend against the Rs 96 lakh professional negligence default judgment.

Fox Mandal did not appear before court to respond to the claim that the firm gave negligent advice in a patent application.

ICICI Lombard motor vehicles product manager Keshava Prashanth has joined Khaitan Sud & Partners as the Bangalore office’s partner-in-charge.

His hire would take advantage of the “processes … developed with the help of DAC Beachcroft”, a UK insurance specialist firm, said the managing partner Umesh Khaitan.

Keshava added that he would he was drawn by the firm’s “process driven approach” to servicing the insurance industry [via Bar & Bench]

Mint column: Lawyers should be the noble and independent servants of justice, the courts and their clients. Finding lawyers who do all three of those things is the exception, rather than the rule.

For starters, Indian clients have very little, if any, recourse against lawyers who give them bad, negligent or harmful legal advice, as explained in today’s Mint feature. But that is just the tip of lawyers’ legal immunity iceberg.

In today’s edition of Mint: Legally India reveals the conundrum of how legal liability insurance has managed to catch on among India’s bigger law firms, despite no one being able to remember any lawyer ever getting sued for negligent advice.