Retroactive reckoning: Construction PI faces its 30-year shadow

Retrospective liability under DPA creates long-term challenges for PI coverage.


Insurance Times recently published an insightful piece exploring how retrospective liability under the Defective Premises Act has been affected by the post-Grenfell legal and regulatory landscape.

As one of the leading professional indemnity (PI) insurers in the market, we were pleased when our head of professional and management risks, Nick Burgess, was asked to provide his expert opinion on this important subject.


Nick’s contribution, along with other PI experts, makes for an interesting and insightful piece and you can read the full article here.

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