Recent experience
Litigation/Arbitration experience:
- Advised London insurers on major reinsurance dispute arising out of 9/11
- Acted for insurers in large broker dispute involving commission payments
litigated in the High Court and subsequently resolved by mediation - Recent High Court and Court of Appeal judgments, favourable to reinsurer clients obtained in relation to fidelity losses (both jurisdictional dispute and claim on merits)
- Represented cedants in quota share reinsurance dispute for US$30m involving brokers' E&O - resolved without litigation but with full recovery of claim, interest and costs
Recent experience as Neutral:
- As mediator, resolved series of disputes in respect of alleged pension mis-selling arising under professional indemnity insurance cover
- Multi-million dollar dispute between insurers and blue chip insured involving commodity losses suffered in the former Soviet Union - resolved without resort to litigation or the instruction by either side of other lawyers
- Series of professional indemnity claims totalling £12m arising out of lender disputes - resolved, as mediator, through managed mediation