ARAG Legal Services
ARAG plc is an internationally successful, quality insurer, independent and family owned - providing access to justice since 1935. We provide an innovative and comprehensive range of legal expenses insurance and assistance products to brokers, underwriting agents and insurers.
Our products allow brokers to offer legal protection to businesses, families, motorists, and landlords and our range of assistance products include Home Emergency, Landlord Emergency and Motor Breakdown.
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ARAG defies pandemic challenges to report double-digit growth for 2021
Legal expenses insurance and assistance provider ARAG has reported its twelfth profitable year in succession, during which the company’s premium under management topped £50 million, for the first time. Read this blog to find out more.
Does mediation offer a route out of the justice crisis?
Following a decade of cuts and closures, the lockdowns and other limitations to legal processes caused by the pandemic have lengthened the backlogs of cases that were already plaguing the courts. This blog focuses on whether mediation offers a route out of the justice crisis.
Demand for commercial legal protection is rising quickly
The combination of longer-term social changes and shorter-term economic pain has made organisations more aware of the legal risks facing their business. Andy Talbot, Head of Sales and Marketing at ARAG, outlines how these changes have increased demand for commercial legal cover.
Pandemic increases demand for legal protection
ARAG commissioned independent research into commercial brokers’ experiences with and attitudes towards legal expenses insurance, to find out how they see the market and what they really want from products and providers. Download this content for analysis of the research findings.
Not so alternative dispute resolution
Like so many aspects of the law, indeed of life, the increasing use of mediation to resolve legal disputes is a trend that has been accelerated by the pandemic, out of necessity. This blog highlights why mediation has become such an important and successful means for delivering access to justice.
DUAL Oliva and ARAG strike deal to cover construction industry risks
ARAG has built a bespoke commercial legal protection solution for DUAL Oliva designed to meet the needs of the specialist MGA’s clients in the construction industry and beyond. Read this short blog to find out more.
April shower of changes for employers
Employers might be forgiven for thinking they deserved a little respite from the continually shifting sands of employment regulation. This blog highlights the employment law changes which take effect in April, when the new tax year begins.
Caution urged for company Christmas parties
While the return of the company party is most welcome, employers need to be careful in the face of stubbornly high Covid-19 case numbers and the recently discovered Omicron variant. This content provides guidance for employers still planning to hold in-person Christmas events this year.
Scots QOCS off the blocks
LASPO’s fundamental transformation of personal injury litigation only extended to England and Wales, leaving Scotland QOCSless, until now. This blog highlights how ARAG ensured its partner firms in Scotland were properly equipped to look after their clients under the new regime.
Q&A with Jonathan Bassey, ATE Account Manager, ARAG
As ARAG’s North of England ATE Account Manager, Jonathan Bassey works with firms in the East Midlands and North-East of England. In this blog, Jonathan shares his views on how the legal landscape has changed since 2017, how the sector responded to the pandemic and what the next year has in in store.