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There are two recently reported cases which may be of interest concerning issues relating to when a Legal Expenses Insurer is obliged to provide indemnity.

• In Webster Dixon & Ors v Equity Syndicate & Ors [2011] EWHC 2661 the claimant argued successfully that an insurer could not reject a policy holder's choice of solicitor simply because the solicitor's charging rate exceeded the rates proposed by the insurer.
• Pine v DAS Legal Expenses Insurers Ltd concerned the entitlement to indemnity in circumstances where the claimant had instructed the counsel of her choice in a negligence action.

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