Equitable Life's retreat from legal battles over compensation claims continued apace yesterday as the struggling mutual insurer dropped its action against Alan Nash, left, former chief executive. Mr ...

Equitable Life has dropped its 1.7bn negligence claims against two former directors. The move follows the Society abandoning its 750m claim against former auditors Ernst & Young last month. Equitable ...

A basic question in any civil litigation is whether to seek a jury trial. Juries are described as a “black box”: unaccountable for the decisions they render, bound only by civic duty to base their ...

Equitable Life has slashed its claim for damages from former auditor Ernst & Young to £700m from £2.05bn. The insurer has dropped its "lost sale" claim - the allegation that directors would have sold ...

Equitable Life has dropped two further legal claims against former directors who it had claimed were responsible for its near collapse in 2000. The troubled insurer has agreed settlements with Roger ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Equitable Life on Monday said it had reached agreements to drop its litigation against two of the mutual’s ...