Michael Payton
Senior partner, London
Recent experience
- "PIPER ALPHA"
- The invasion of Kuwait
- Collapse of US savings & loans bank
- Breast implants
- US environment and pollution claims including "EXXON VALDEZ"
- Break up of the former Yugoslavia
- Scandinavian credit reinsurance losses
- Loss of the "SLEIPNER GBS"
- The grounding of the oil tankers "BRAER" and "SEA EMPRESS"
- The kidnap of the stallion "SHERGAR"
- Chernobyl related contamination of food crops
- The Lloyd's litigation including reconstruction and renewal
- Break up of the former USSR from the perspective of Insurers of Russian oil and gas industries
- Extended warranty losses
- Hatfield rail crash
- Split capital trusts
- Loss of P36
- World Trade Center
- E&O and D&O claims following the collapse of Enron and problems with other major US corporations
- Bermudan form excess liability insurance arbitrations
- USA tax shelters
- 2005 Hurricanes
- 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth