What's big, yellow and helps businesses with employment disputes?

All businesses have legal problems, from employment issues to contract disputes. They can be unpredictable, expensive and time-consuming to resolve.

Our commercial legal expenses insurance offers a cost effective legal cover for businesses to resolve legal issues.

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Contact your broker or insurer today to get help

  • Check whether your current insurance actually includes legal expenses cover.
  • Make sure your cover keeps up with legislation changes and updates to law.
  • Act quickly and confidently when a dispute arises.
  • Understand the legal risks you are exposed to.
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You can call our legal advice helpline and get immediate advice on all legal problems affecting your business, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year*. You can also obtain tax-related advice from our tax helpline or use our counselling assistance helpline, which is available to your employees and their families.

We will pay the legal costs of defending a business against a claim from an employee if there is a reasonable prospect of the defence being successful, and will pay compensation if it is awarded against the business.

Any kind of dispute or problem with a supplier or customer can have a significant impact on your business. If this happens we will help you to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and the insurer will pay any legal costs involved.

Examples of how we support business

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Legal defence: A prosecution arising from data protection legislation.

Debt recovery: A supplier fails to pay an invoice on time, causing cashflow problems for the business.

Property protection: A neighbouring business restricts access to the premises.

Bodily injury: A claim for compensation following a sudden accident which causes bodily injury.

Tax protection: A notice of an enquiry into the tax or VAT returns of the business is received.

Watch: a guide to our Day One Benefits for policyholders

How we’ve helped our policyholders

Securing Sophie's employment rights

On returning to work after maternity leave, Sophie found her job role had been reduced. We helped her get reinstated.

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Halting harassment at work for Carla

Carla suffered harassment and bullying at work. We helped stop it, and allow her to return to work.

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Solving Bashir's boundary dispute

When a neighbour installed a fence on Bashir's property, we helped him resolve this.

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Disclaimer

*Legal advice is available 24/7 in England and Wales only; advice in other jurisdictions is available 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, excluding bank holidays.