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Our deep sector knowledge and vast experience in the domestic and international insurance industry enable us to provide tailored advice on insurance matters, adding value and helping you to avoid the risks.

Summary

Our team of highly-experienced, multi-disciplinary experts has vast expertise in insurance, reinsurance and regulatory law. We represent insurers, reinsurers, brokers, intermediaries and policy holders in both contentious and non-contentious matters in the UK and international insurance market.

We provide policy coverage advice and dispute resolution services for claims in the major classes of insurance business including aviation, marine and energy, trade credit and political risk, construction, financial and professional risks including transactional liability, D&O and E&O, crime and cyber, employers and public liability, and environmental.

We have significant expertise in the international reinsurance market acting for reinsurers on coverage and complex claims issues particularly in the property, casualty and marine and energy market. We Bermuda Form arbitration as English arbitration advisers to the excess liability insurance market, and we have extensive experience of arbitration under UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC and other common arbitration rules.

Our expertise includes advising on and drafting policy wordings breach of contract, claims defensibility, complaints, compliance, transactional advice,  coverage, enforcements, indemnity, investigations and enforcements (including FCA), Financial Ombudsman Service, mis-selling, and policy wording, products and services, professional negligence, regulatory, risk assessment and subrogation.

The team are ranked in both Chambers UK and The Legal 500, with David Breslin described as “one of the most experienced and capable insurance/reinsurance disputes lawyers around.  He has seen it all and is a shrewd and unflappable litigator,  He runs an excellent team and is immensely approachable, highly proactive, and solutions-oriented.  Widely admired, clients and barristers love working for him”

Key Contacts

David Breslin

Partner

Dispute Resolution

Philip Hooley

Partner

Dispute Resolution

Michael C. Ledley

Partner

Commercial Litigation

Thomas Wax

Partner

D&O Insurance, Corporate

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