Limited Companies don’t offer the protection they used to   During the course of a year some 500,000 new businesses are likely to launch in the UK and a large proportion of the budding entrepreneurs behind these businesses will be advised by their professional advisors to run their business through a limited company. These advisers will have in mind that about four of every ten new businesses die within 5 years and that “death” can take the form of an insolvency. The limited company structure has historically meant that in the event of failure at least the entrepreneur’s house and...