Capita Insurance Services has signed a three-year deal to offer Commercial Legal Expenses as the preferred commercial legal expenses product on the Acturis Broker platform.

The deal will come into effect from 26 April 2004, and will see Acturis offering Capita's product electronically.

Following the agreement, the two companies said they expected to see the cross selling of commercial legal expenses cover grow from 7% to in excess of 40%.

Capita said Commercial Legal Expenses would enable brokers and intermediaries to obtain real-time quotations as well as provide access to supporting documentation.

Capita Insurance Services business development director Lee Gladwell said the partnership represented an important new channel for the company's Commercial Legal Expenses product.

Acturis joint chief executive officer Theo Duchen said: “We see this partnership with Capita Insurance Services as a natural alliance of two leaders in their field and we are looking forward to a closer working relationship.”