General counsel will have to tool up if they are to get the insurance coverage they need in the UK and Europe. That was one of the key messages from US general counsel at the recent Legal Week roundtable on insurance litigation, held in association with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham (K&LNG).

Post-Spitzer and the AIG controversy earlier this year, there are several lessons to be learnt from across the Atlantic in “keeping brokers honest”.