Insurance book scoops top award

By Ben Schofield on Jul 31, 08 12:05 PM

A LIVERPOOL lawyer is part of the team behind a book awarded a top industry prize.

Dr Digby C Jess, a barrister at Exchange Chambers, co-authored the 2nd edition of "Professional Indemnity Insurance Law".

The book has been awarded the 2008 BILA Book prize by the Trustees of the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Charitable Trust.

"Professional Indemnity Insurance Law", published last December by Sweet & Maxwell, takes a comprehensive look at all the aspects of professional indemnity insurance law.

It analyses all relevant areas of law, from the nature and extent of the legal relationship between a professional and client, through to the detailed discussion of insuring clauses to be found in modern professional indemnity policies.

Dr Jess is a well-respected practitioner and author of several books on insurance law - his first book on professional indemnity insurance law having been published 25 years ago.

Commenting on the award, he said: "I am absolutely delighted. Writing and producing this book was a real effort with a busy practice. It was a new and challenging experience for me to co-author a book, a task made all the more interesting because my co-author was based in Australia"

Dr Jess has nearly 30 years' experience of commercial, professional negligence, and construction litigation and arbitration, and is presently involved in the Employers' Liability insurance 'trigger' test cases being heard in the London High Court. He is also an experienced Chartered Arbitrator, receiving appointments in both commercial and construction disputes.