Row brewing over legal costs from FBD pub insurance case

FBD is understood not to be willing to pay costs incurred by the plaintiff from dealing with their own legal team, which could see the four pubs who took the case forced to pay hundreds of thousands of euro.

A row is brewing over the payment of legal costs arising from the landmark Covid-19 business interruption insurance court case, which ruled in favour of four pubs against insurer FBD last week.

It is understood FBD is willing to pay only part of the pubs’ legal costs, despite having been mandated by the Central Bank to cover all reasonable costs no matter what the outcome of the case.