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