Insurance

Insurance claims & disputes

Our specialist team have extensive experience in handling insurance claims & disputes, and have a deep understanding of the unique demands and pressures of the insurance market. We combine sector-specific knowledge, regulatory expertise & a client-based approach to provide strategic legal advice to policyholders, insurers and brokers.

Who we act for:

We advise corporate policyholders, major insurers, Lloyds syndicates, brokers, loss adjustors and insurance claims professionals on policy wording, complex claims and coverage disputes across the following commercial and financial lines of business:

• Business interruption
• Employers and public liability
• Directors & officers (‘D&O’)
• Product liability
• Professional negligence
• Property and casualty
• Policy coverage
• Subrogated recoveries
• Waiver & indemnity (‘W&I’)

Sectors we specialise in

Our team specialises in the following sectors:

• Retail
• Logistics and Warehousing
• Hospitality
• Financial Services
• Construction
• Property

Recent work experience

• Acting on behalf of a Mayfair nightclub policyholder in relation a £6M COVID-19 business interruption insurance claim.
• Acting for a building sub-contractor policyholder in a multiparty dispute in relation to alleged professional negligence arising from £8M building fire damage and thirdparty liability claims, involving insurance coverage, liability apportionment and indemnity issues.
• Advising an employment agency on various claims with a value in excess of £10M arising out of breaches of nonsolicitation and exclusivity restrictive covenants in a supplier agreement by the principal contractor, which included the consideration of injunctive relief.
• Advising and representing an online digital marketing agency to recover sums due under a supplier agreement and refundable deployed capital due to force majeure.
• Advising a policyholder in relation to an environmental disaster, pollution risk and consequent litigation advice and reputation management.
• Advising various policyholders on COVID-19 risk management strategy and investigating a subsequent employer’s liability fatality claim.
• Advising a global logistics policyholder on the cost and transference of insurance claims liability from an insolvent commercial entity to another subsidiary company and the implications this would have on the applicable corporate dissolution process.