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Insurance Issues: Program Report is published by the Lawyers Insurance Fund, and distributed to all lawyers and articled students in the province to keep them updated on the group liability insurance program.

Past issues (2000-2008) are listed below, with links, and available in Publications & Forms.

2009: April:
  • reports on the 2009 insurance program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims (negligence and theft);
  • revisits the benefits of excess insurance
  • reports on the results of LIF service evaluations
2008: March:
  • reports on the 2008 insurance program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims (negligence and theft);
  • highlights proactive claims management and creative resolutions;
  • reviews new risk management initiatives.
2007: March:
  • reports on the 2007 insurance program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims (negligence and theft);
  • highlights website resources;
  • announces a seminal risk management publication on missed deadlines.
2006: February:
  • reports on the 2006 insurance program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims;
  • highlights risk management resources;
  • reviews "advance rulings," including coverage information for lawyers acting as executors or trustees.
2005: February:
  • reports on the 2005 compulsory program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims within the program;
  • introduces new risk management resources;
  • reviews insurance coverage advice available on the website, including information about insurance coverage for lawyers no longer in private practice.
2004: May-June:
  • reports on the new consolidated policy issued May 1, 2004;
  • provides details of new trust protection coverage;
  • summarizes minor policy wording changes.
2004: March:
  • reports on the 2004 compulsory program and policy;
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims within the program;
  • notes changes to the excess insurance program and the availability of optional business innocent insured coverage;
  • lists available services and resources from the Lawyers Insurance Fund;
  • summarizes the insurance aspects of the new national mobility agreement of the Federation of Law Societies.
2003: February:
  • reports on the 2003 compulsory program and policy
  • reviews statistics on claims and potential claims within the program
  • details new website information available from the Lawyers Insurance Fund - such as new initiatives on coverage and optional coverage available to BC lawyers
  • comments on the insurance aspects of the new national mobility agreement of the Federation of Law Societies
2002: February:
  • reviews the state of the insurance program
  • summarizes minor changes to the wording of the 2002 compulsory policy
  • provides details of extended insurance coverage for approved pro bono services
  • provides details of optional business "innocent insured" coverage
2001: January-February:
  • reviews the state of the insurance program
  • summarizes minor changes to the wording of the 2001 compulsory policy
  • discusses the insurance implications of the Western Law Societies Conveyancing Protocol
2000: February:
  • summarizes minor changes to the wording of the 2000 compulsory policy

Insurance Issues: Risk Management, a new publication that offers advice on activities and areas of practice that present potential risks to lawyers, is available in Risk Management.

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