Recent experience
Arbitration and Litigation
- If P&C v Silversea Cruises Limited – first reported case following 9/11 involving bespoke loss of revenue policy issued to a cruise line
- Sphere Drake v Sterling Cooke Brown – part of the successful team in this seminal PA spiral case
- R&SA v UOP – High Court proceedings relating to contingent business interruption claim
- Representing London and Bermudan insurers in arbitration proceedings in relation to substantial energy loss in Canada
- Arbitration proceedings relating to residual value insurance
- Reinsurance arbitration arising out of Hurricane Katrina
- Bermuda reinsurance arbitration relating to recovery of US APH losses under quota share treaty
- Bermuda form arbitration, product liability coverage dispute
- Acting for reinsurer defending claim in respect of product liability settlement in pharmaceutical industry
- Numerous reinsurance arbitrations involving issues of non-disclosure/misrepresentation, breach of warranty, policy construction, aggregation and follow settlements
US Litigation
John has worked closely with US lawyers on several major pieces of litigation on behalf of London market companies, Lloyd's syndicates and overseas companies including the following:
- Travelers Insurance Co v London Underwriters - defending reinsurance claim involving issue of aggregation of asbestos losses
- Bath Iron Works v London Underwriters - State Court in Maine; case relating to aggregate excess of loss US workers' compensation claims involving losses of US$40m
- Pan Atlantic Group v Atlantica - District Court, New York, dispute concerning a reinsurance pool
- London Underwriters v General Dynamics Corporation - litigation in State Court, St. Louis, Missouri involving US$100m, underwriters awarded rescission of two aggregate excess of loss US workers' compensation policies for alleged fraudulent misrepresentation