Webinar: Navigating ECCTA – What insurers need to know 2025

In this IIL casualty webinar, Phillippa Ellis, Robert Amaee, Anna McIntyre and Paul Chadwick talk through the latest changes for businesses, from ECCTA – the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 – and the related risks insurers should be aware of.

The ECCTA marks a major shift in how corporate crime is tackled in the UK – introducing tougher regulations and broader liability for businesses of all sizes. With new offences like Failure to Prevent Fraud and a wider Identification Doctrine, the risk of prosecution is now very real for organisations that aren’t prepared. This session provides an update on the changes and discusses insurance-related risks for businesses.

Speakers

• Phillippa Ellis, Partner (PE), Capital Law
• Robert Amaee, Senior Legal Counsel (RA), Capital Law
• Anna McIntyre, Senior Associate (AM), Capital Law
• Paul Chadwick, Forensic Accountant Investigator (PC), Capital Law

Learning objectives

• Understand how Companies House reforms will affect a business’s compliance obligations
• Identify when businesses may now be held criminally liable under expanded corporate criminal liability
• Learn when the Failure to Prevent Fraud offence could apply to organisations, including what the defence of reasonable procedures is
• Discuss some of the insurance-related risks arising from these changes