Resources
PII Renewal 2025/2026
Helpline for Solicitors
The Law Society operates a PII helpline Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm to assist firms in dealing with the professional indemnity insurance queries. The helpline can be contacted by phoning 01 879 8707 or emailing piihelpline@lawsociety.ie
Renewal resources
The Common Proposal Form, list of insurers and list of brokers is available below.
Insurance status of firms
Please note that information on the current professional indemnity insurance (“PII”) provider for each firm is available under Firm Insurance Details.
Current PII Regulations
Common Proposal Form
The editable Common Proposal Form documentation for the 2025/2026 indemnity period can be downloaded below. These are large files so they may take a few moments to open. Firstly save the form to your computer before you complete the form. You should use this form and guidance to apply for PII cover unless otherwise directed by your broker.
You may need to select 'control' and 'F5' on your keyboard when accessing the form to see the latest version.
Please note: a certificate of good standing is not required to be included with the common proposal form as part of your PII application.
Participating Insurers Agreement
Insurers are required to sign a participating insurers agreement in order to participate in the solicitors’ PII market.
The signed agreement is required to be received by the Special Purpose Fund Manager, DWF Claims (Ireland) Limited in hard and soft copy on or before close of business on 1 November 2024.
The Law Society has no power to grant any extension of this deadline. As such, if the form is not submitted to the Special Purpose Fund Manager on or before 1 November 2024, the insurer will not be permitted to act as a participating insurers in the market in 2024/2025. It should be noted that there is no minimum level of participation in the Special Purpose Fund for any insurer who signs the Participating Insurers Agreement this year.
Queries or applications to the SPF Manager should be directed to DWF Claims (Ireland) Limited.
PII quotes
All insurers are required to leave quotes to firms open for a period of not less than 10 working days. This requirement was introduced in the 2012/2013 indemnity period and remains in place.
Insurers
The list of participating insurers for the 2025/2026 indemnity period is available below.
Financial rating of insurers
The Law Society introduced a new requirement for all participating insurers for the 2018/2019 indemnity period increasing the required minimum financial strength rating of the insurer from BBB (S&P, Fitch or equivalent) to A (Fitch, S&P or equivalent). Insurers must meet and maintain the minimum financial strength rating to participate in the market. Information on the insurer’s financial rating should be provided with every quote.
Brokers
The list of brokers who expressed their willingness to arrange PII cover from participating insurers is as follows.
For details of login access or other broker queries, see confirmation of cover.
Special Purpose Fund Manager (Assigned Risks Pool and Run-off Fund)
The Special Purpose Fund consists of the Assigned Risks Pool and the Run-off Fund. The Assigned Risks Pool is the insurer of last resort for solicitors unable to obtain cover in the market. The Run-off Fund provides run-off cover to eligible ceased firms.
See more information and contact details for the Fund Manager under Run-off Cover.
Run-off Cover
For information including the Run-off Fund and Run-off Fund Guidelines, see Run-off Cover.
Risk management
One of the main factors taken into account by insurers when considering the risk profile of a solicitor firm, and therefore whether the insurer is willing to insure a firm and the cost of that insurance, is the implementation and maintenance of risk management strategies and procedures to minimise the risk of an insurance claim against the firm.
The Law Society's risk management guidance notes set out risk management policies and procedures that firms should consider implementing in order to reduce the firm’s risk profile and correspondence PII premium.
Previous Indemnity periods
PII documentation, forms, statutory instruments, Risk Management Consultants and news items for prior indemnity periods can be accessed under Past PII resources.
