Countrywide Legal Indemnities
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Countrywide Legal Indemnities was founded in 1994 and is named in the Solicitors Journal as being “one of the countries leading intermediaries”.[1] The company is based in Norwich, Norfolk and currently employs over 60 staff.
Countrywide Legal Indemnities is an underwriting agency that works with conveyancing professionals. They supply legal indemnity insurance and protection to individuals and firms purchasing property or land with a title defect. Since 2001 local authorities in England have been testing land for harmful chemicals under the new environmental measures that were introduced and this has encouraged firms such as Countrywide to develop policies to protect against the threat of historical contaminated land.
“a number of insurers, such as Countrywide Legal Indemnities, are now offering additional cover to protect against contaminated land.”[2]
In 1997 Countrywide was endorsed by The Law Society, providing its members with a Defective Title insurance Scheme and other related indemnities on their behalf. It remains the only legal indemnity provider to be endorsed by The Law Society.
