Irish Law Society wants extension after “Institutional bullying”
The Irish Law Society has warned solicitors not to give into “institutional bullying” as hundreds of law firms remain without professional indemnity insurance days before the expiry of the deadline for 2010, the Times reports.
Three members of the council wrote to solicitors last week claiming that practices which had had claims lodged against their professional indemnity insurance were being denied cover without any proof of negligence on their part.
“This is institutional bullying at a very acute time for many colleagues,” said Law Society council members James Cahill, Kevin O’Higgins and Brendan Twomey. “If [these] two situations are occurring on a large scale, it will represent an all-out assault on the legal profession. If ever there was a need for collegiality and community support it is now and the solicitors of Ireland must defend themselves.”
The Law Society has asked insurance firms for a two-week extension for solicitors to get professional indemnity insurance, the Irish Independent reports.
