Solicitors Professional Indemnity (PI) Insurance
By lawyers, for lawyers
A solicitor’s reputation depends on their ability to anticipate challenges to come. Offering clients sound counsel, informed by deep experience. We understand this instinctively because, at Travelers, our risk managers and claims professionals are lawyers themselves. It’s given us unique insight that has made us one of the UK's leading solicitors' professional indemnity insurers. With our own in-house law firm, Travelers Legal, we are uniquely positioned to provide PI insurance for law firms and solicitors that offers seamless support, service and true partnership. Because offering strong guidance often involves taking risks, Travelers is here to protect legal professionals when they do – today and into the future.
Spotlight video: Solicitors' Professional Indemnity Insurance
Discover the key highlights of our Solicitors' PI insurance, in just three minutes. Watch James Graham, Managing Director for Professional Indemnity - Bond & Specialty, as he shares an overview of who our cover is designed for and what sets Travelers apart.
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Text: Overview of Travelers Solicitors Professional Indemnity Insurance. James Graham, Managing Director - Professional Indemnity – Bond & Specialty
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We first entered the Solicitors Professional Indemnity market back in in 2000 and have been a prominent insurer in this sector ever since. Back when we started, we had a team of four people working across our solicitors product – today the team has grown five-fold.
Our product complies with the SRA minimum terms and conditions, and provides additional benefits including accidental damage to documents, compensation for court attendance, and Personal Accident cover for 2-15 partner firms. We can also offer additional benefits on request, such as regulatory defence costs cover.
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Text: Additional benefits include:
- Accidental damage to documents,
- Compensation for court attendance
- Personal accident cover for 2-15 partner firms
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And more importantly, our dedicated Risk Managers bring critical data and resource analysis to our clients, enabling them to identify and manage their own risk. We also provide a post-claim wellbeing service to support any individuals affected.
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For firms that qualify within our criteria, we offer early renewals, which makes the renewal process easier and more streamlined for our clients.
We also provide various limit options from the mandatory limit up to £10m for primary policies and on a 100% basis, without the need for co-insurance providing greater certainty and better efficiency when claims are made and handled.
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We can consider any size of law firm, based either internationally or in England and Wales, which is regulated by the SRA.
We also offer products for registered Freelance Solicitors, Law Centres and unregulated Legal Advisors.
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• Sole practitioners & freelance Solicitors
• 1-10 & 11+ partner firms
• Start ups - global & overseas law firms
• Unregulated legal firms
• Not-for-profit law centres
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At Travelers we aim to be more than just an insurer. We are a trusted partner to our legal clients, providing advice and support both before and after a claim is made against them.
With legally trained underwriters and solicitors in both our claim and risk team, along with our longstanding partnership with the Law Society, we understand what firms really need.
And finally, Travelers in-house claim team of qualified solicitors brings extensive experience across multiple jurisdictions and practice areas.
When you choose Travelers, you're not just buying insurance – you're gaining a trusted partner. Our dedicated team of legally trained underwriters, qualified solicitors, and risk managers work alongside you to protect what matters most. Your CLIENTS.
Spotlight video: Solicitors' PI - How our risk management team supports law firms
In this video, Senior Risk Management Consultant Philippa Wilkin shares how Travelers’ Solicitors PI clients benefit from comprehensive, hands-on risk management support.
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Text: Overview of Travelers Solicitors PI Risk Management Services. Philippa Wilkin | Senior Risk Management Consultant – Bond & Specialty
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When your clients choose Travelers for their Solicitors Professional Indemnity cover, they gain access to our in-house risk management services. The main role of the risk management team is to work closely and directly with our clients to help them manage and identify the underlying causes of their business risks. Using our claims data we learn from ‘what’s gone wrong’ for other firms in the past, not to only to help prevent claims in the future but also to ensure that our clients don’t go through similar experiences or face identical scenarios.
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- 40 years’ sector experience
- Qualified legal and PI specialists
- Providing actionable guidance
Our risk management team combines over 40 years of hands-on experience across legal practice and insurance underwriting. As qualified solicitors and PI specialists, we understand the risks that law firms face. We translate this expertise into actionable guidance that protects your clients’ practice and helps them to make the right decisions for their business.
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We work closely with our insureds to improve business practice and understand their business risks.
Using insights from our claims data and statistics, we publish reports which identify and highlight risks and include the severity and frequency of claims in different practice areas.
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- Claims trends
- errors leading to claims
- underlying causes
As you would expect, with time and advances in technology, we can identify current trends and potential new claims and the types of errors that lead to them. We then share this information with our insureds.
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- Work with our underwriting teams
- Risk profile assessments
- Determining success or failure factors
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Our risk consultants also partner with our underwriting teams to assess the risk profile of prospective and existing clients, by reviewing their proposals and business plans. This provides insight into new developments in the legal sector as the market responds to changing conditions, as well as the factors that determine success or failure for a legal services firm.
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As part of our service, we also conduct regular horizon scanning of developments affecting the legal services sector, which include evolving issues like cyber-risk and changes in regulation. We work closely with our cyber and office product teams.
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- Regulation changes and emerging risks
- Tailored seminars and workshops
- Guidance on practical measures
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We can also offer tailored seminars and workshops in which we share examples of claims in a variety of practice areas - for teams, departments or firms – including guidance and advice on practical measures to control and mitigate the risks of a claim. We have our own online risk portal, which is exclusive to our policyholders, and contains information, templates and other resources from industry commentators as well as our own in-house analysis and expert reports.
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- Engagement letters
- File reviews
- Anti-money laundering policy
- Risk review letters
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Our risk resources can also help clients establish best practice to guide any auditable checks to ensure work undertaken is efficient and effective. It will also help to reduce the risk of Professional Indemnity claims.
With Travelers Solicitors PI, we offer your clients more than insurance – they get an experienced risk management team that truly partners with you to help identify and prevent problems before they happen. That's the difference between coverage and confidence.
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Logo: A red umbrella. Text: Travelers. This video is provided for general informational purposes only. It does not, and it is not intended to, provide legal, technical or other professional advice, nor does it amend, or otherwise affect, the provisions or coverages of any insurance policy issued by Travelers. Coverage depends on the facts and circumstances involved in the claim or loss, all applicable policy provisions, and any applicable law. Travelers operates through several underwriting entities in the UK and Europe. Please consult your policy documentation or visit the websites below for full information.
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Explore solicitors & law firms subsectors
Platinum Solicitors
As one of the UK’s leading professional indemnity insurers for solicitors, our Platinum Solicitors proposition is specialised for large law firms.
Freelancers
Travelers’ professional indemnity insurance for freelance solicitors offers protection from the risks of conducting business outside of a law firm.
2 to 10 partner firms
Our professional indemnity insurance for smaller legal firms can provide the specialised cover they need, now and as they grow in the future.
11+ partner firms
As legal firms grow beyond 11 partners, their risks can multiply. Our professional indemnity offering provides the protection law firms need, so they can focus on their clients.
Sole practitioners
Working alone but not alone – we’re on your side. We’ve built tools and processes to help minimise the time sole practitioners spend administering their policy and reducing the risk of a claim.
New law firm start-ups
Starting a new law firm takes courage, and a certain tolerance for risk. We can share our best practice risk management knowledge and work together to ensure risks are reduced, delivering the support and professional indemnity insurance needed.
Non-reserved legal activity
Those working in the legal sector, but outside of Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) jurisdiction, have had few options to safeguard themselves against professional indemnity risks, so we developed a bespoke solution.
Travelers advantage
In a dynamic world, things don’t always go to plan. Travelers offers expertise you can count on to address diverse risks thanks to a detailed and bespoke underwriting process.
- Financial strength. Financial strength and stability with international reach.
- Experience & expertise. Long-term industry experience combined with deep specialist underwriting expertise.
- Superior claims service. Expert Claims teams focused on delivering superior service.
- Dedicated risk managers & consultants. Access to risk consulting from trusted experts.
- Multinational reach. Tailored coverage and support in more than 150 countries.
- Flexible policy lengths. We can provide extended policy lengths, up to 18 months, which can be tailored to your client’s needs.
- Financial flexibility. We offer options to spread payments dependent on the financial objectives of your client’s policy. Plus, we do not charge administration fees if your client needs to make changes to the policy mid-term.
- In-house legal services. In-house law firm that works with customers on claims where legal action is being taken against them.
- Run-off calculator. Current policyholders can anticipate run off coverage costs.
- Risk Review hub. A suite of tools and resources to help law firms minimise the risk of having to make a professional indemnity claim.
- Wellbeing support. Confidential counselling service in the event of a professional indemnity claim being made for those involved.
- Early renewals process. Qualifying policyholders can take advantage of early renewals for less paperwork and peace of mind from knowing that cover is secured well in advance of the renewal date.
- Preventing claims. Our in-house risk consultants and claims team partner closely to analyse trends and identify the underlying causes of business risks. Using our extensive experience, plus a wealth of claims data, we learn from what’s gone wrong, so you and your clients don’t have to.
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