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Insurance & Reinsurance

Regularly advises and acts on cases involving an insurance element, including disputes involving interpretation of policy wordings, non-disclosure and avoidance issues, fidelity policies and fire damage.

Recent cases include:
• Acting for Insurers contesting cover in respect of an engineer's professional indemnity policy.
• Acting for distributors against insurers disputing coverage following a fire at warehouse of well known retailer.
• Advising insurers in relation to cover under a surveyor's professional indemnity policy following criminal allegations and involving issues such as formation of the policy, non-disclosure and construction of the policy.
• Acting for and advising claimants and insurers in relation to cover under life insurance policies.
• Fire claims/arson defences.
• Acting for both claimants and insurers in relation to permanent health insurance claims.
• Advising insurers on coverage and exclusion issues in respect of residential and commercial property policies.
• Reinsurance dispute arising out of earthquake in Turkey.
• Acting for professional indemnity insurers in relation to recovery from reinsurers which had purportedly avoided their reinsurance contracts.
• Successor practice and solicitors indemnity insurance issues following the demise of the Solicitors' Indemnity Fund.