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Adverse cost insurance does not eliminate risk of costs award against plaintiffs, says lawyer

from Law Times

Adverse cost insurance does not eliminate risk of costs award against plaintiffs, says lawyer Law Times While many plaintiff’s-side personal injury law firms provide adverse cost insurance to their clients, plaintiffs covered under those policies should not feel totally insulated from the defendant’s costs claim if the litigation goes south, says Toronto lawyer Darcy Merkur. “Many personal injury plaintiffs may not appreciate that even though they were smart enough to purchase adverse costs insurance, where appropriate, that their adverse cost insurance may prove highly inadequate to address the real risk,” says Merkur, a trauma lawyer and partner at Thomson Rogers. READ MORE

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