{"id":701006,"date":"2026-07-20T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:46:08","slug":"legal-expenses-cover-in-the-spotlight-as-uk-neighbour-tree-disputes-hit-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701006\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal expenses cover in the spotlight as UK neighbour tree disputes hit 56%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Saga&#8217;s data adds to the picture<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Anna Thunstrom (pictured), Saga&#8217;s head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/uk\/glossary\/home-insurance\/563138\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">home insurance<\/a>, said it can be difficult to know what your rights are as a homeowner or tenant. She added that the financial exposure customers face without adequate cover can be significant, pointing to fines of up to \u00a320,000 for damaging a protected tree, on top of potential civil compensation, legal fees and replacement costs, and noted that legal expenses cover, where held, can fund advice or representation if a dispute cannot be resolved directly with a neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Saga&#8217;s data adds to the picture Anna Thunstrom (pictured), Saga&#8217;s head of home insurance, said it can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66258,59,57,58,50,232814,2058,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-fca","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-saga-home-insurance","tag-tree","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}