Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes

Notable deals and highlights

• We represented a client bank in a multi-party LCIA arbitration to help it recoup its credit crunch losses either from credit insurers or from the counterparty.
• We advised an underwriting agent about his responsibilities toward the risk carrier when a dispute arose out of a property loss.
• We represented an insurer in a dispute against French brokers related to the payment of commissions and indemnities.
• We helped a life insurance client to dispose, through mediation, a claim for mis-selling a financial product after the customer rejected the decision of the ombudsman.
• We assisted an insured in successfully recovering losses from its (re)insurers in respect of a North Sea oil field sub-sea pipeline buckling claim.
• We advised art financiers on their insurance protection in respect of a loan agreement.
• We advised wind farm owners and developers in respect of its insurance claim flowing from delay to the EPC construction under a DSU cover.
• We advised a Big-Four accountancy firm on its Asia-wide insurance programme taking into account GDPR issues as processor.