Personal legal expenses insurance could help you and your family with a number of legal issues, depending on what cover you have. This site can help you learn about legal expenses insurance, how to get it, and how to use it if you have it.
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Legal expenses insurance is a type of ‘add-on’ insurance designed to help protect you and your family against the impact of life’s unexpected legal challenges.
If you find yourself in need of help, legal expenses insurance gives you access to a legal advice helpline and could also cover your legal costs, even if your case goes to court. It could provide cover for common issues like:
How can it help me?
Legal expenses insurance can be an affordable way to help individuals, motorists and business owners get access to legal support when they need it
Legal expenses insurance does vary between providers, but there are some things that it doesn’t generally help with. These might be:
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