Composite Legal Expenses has teamed up with leading small business pressure group, the
Forum of Private Business (FPB), to provide its members with a new commercial legal
expenses insurance package, including a 24/7 legal advice help-line.

The scheme has been put together in response to a recent FPB survey of business owners
which revealed that nearly 80% of respondents wanted an insurance package to be included
as part of FPB's membership offer.

Nick Goulding, FPB Chief Executive says:

“In response to this demand, we have teamed up with Composite Legal Expenses to offer a
brand new legal expenses and assistance insurance package to our members which forms
part of a new enhanced membership offering.”

John Mullin, Composite's Managing Director, explains:

“We're delighted to have been selected as the Legal Expenses provider to FPB. Our package
will be of particular help in providing assistance to members in dealing with the minefield of
complex changes in the world of employment and taxation law – in fact the complete legal
minefield that SMEs today experience.“

Notes for editors:

Established in 1996, Composite Legal Expenses is one of the UK's leading providers of legal
expenses insurance and 24/7 legal help-lines. In addition to specialising in affinity group
schemes, Composite offers a wide range of legal expenses insurances enabling brokers to
tailor-make products to suit their clients' individual needs and is soon to launch a new on-line
broker service. Award-winning Composite is also a major provider of After-The-Event cover
and Event Litigation Funding.

The Forum of Private Business was formed in 1977 and is a pressure group fighting on
behalf of private businesses. FPB represents approximately 25,000 UK-based businesses
employing in excess of 600,000 people and is a powerful lobbying voice in both the UK and EU.
FPB, as the only full UK member of UEAPME – the organisation which represents crafts, trades
and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe – is the most prominent advocate
of UK SMEs in Brussels and has a track record of positively affecting legislation prior to its
introduction in the UK. FPB also provides a range of business services aimed at increasing
member efficiency and profitability.

Web-site: www.fpb.org

For further information please contact:

Nigel Dyer or Judy Kellie, Intelligent Marketing Partnership
Tel: 01798 81 5687 Email: intelligentmktg@aol.com or

John Mullin, MD, Composite Legal Expenses
Tel: 0871 423 5240 Email: john@composite-legal.com