Most people assume justice is available if you have been wronged. The harder truth is that many of the biggest harms are invisible, shared across millions, and too expensive to challenge alone. We explore how litigation for the greater good actually works when the defendants are well resourced, and the real losses sit inside things like pensions, consumer purchases, or communities harmed by environmental damage, and the defendants are well resourced.

Hosted by Anna Gilbert, Divisional Director within Howden's Litigation Risk Management team, and joined by Hausfeld lawyers Lucy Pert and Simon Bishop, together they unpack the idea of “law as a force for good” beyond the usual soundbites. We talk through climate and human rights style claims, but also the less obvious cases that still protect society: emissions litigation, competition and consumer redress, and securities claims where misleading markets can affect huge groups of investors and everyday pension savers. Along the way we discuss how claimants are identified when they don’t even know they’ve suffered harm, and why collective actions and group litigation can be the only realistic route to accountability.

We also get practical about the machinery that makes these cases possible. Third-party litigation funding, ATE insurance and newer own-side cost insurance can shift risk off balance sheets and open the door to fairer pricing and more options. We look at how regulators and private enforcement interact, why deterrence matters, and what might change next, from procedural reform for collective redress to the growing role of AI in securities disclosures and trading. If you’re curious about litigation funding, legal costs risk, collective redress, or how insurance supports access to justice, please visit our website or get in touch with Anna Gilbert.

The adoption of delegated healthcare tasks in the care sector has been occurring for many years, and the pace of change will only accelerate. In this episode we talk delegated healthcare tasks: what they are and why they only make sense when they benefit the person receiving care. Hosted by Richard Lawson, Senior Account Executive at Howden Health & Care.

We sit down with Melanie Weatherley MBE, Co-Chair of the Care Association Alliance, and David Taylor, Executive Director and Head of Howden UK Health & Care to discuss the uncomfortable questions: who is competent, who is supervising, and who is actually liable when something goes wrong?

From an insurance perspective, we break down why delegated tasks are hard to define, how treatment-only policies can leave dangerous gaps, and why medical malpractice insurance is often the safer foundation when clinical delegation is on the table. The big takeaway is transparency: tell your broker and your insurer what you do, what you might do, and what controls you have in place, because CQC scrutiny and real claims both punish silence.

This episode is a must listen for anyone that works in social care leadership, risk or compliance.

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work from every direction. It’s creating new opportunities for efficiency and insight, but as our dependence on it increases, so does the potential for risk.

In this podcast, Howden Claims Director Neil Williams is joined by George Smith and Graham Reid from RPC to explore:

• How AI can potentially help accountants?
• What do the regulators think of firms using AI?
• What are the risks of using AI?
• What can be done to limit or mitigate those risks?