Clyde & Co

Recent experience

• Advising H&M insurers and their insured on liability issues arising following an allision by the insured vessel with a port facility leading to partial closure of the port
• Advising charterers' liability insurers and their insured in relation to major claims against the insured following a calcium hypochlorite explosion onboard the chartered vessel
• Advising shipyard liability insurers and their insured in relation to personal injury claims for multiple trauma following a shipyard explosion
• Advising builders' risk insurers on coverage issues (including defective design, delay in delivery and betterment) arising in relation to a series of vessels under construction at the insured's yard
• Advising cargo insurers on coverage issues arising in relation to claims by the insured for loss/seizure/misappropriation of rice and veg oil cargoes in West Africa
• Advising specie insurers in relation to coverage issues arising (including breach of warranty/failure to implement surveyor's recommendations) following a South American vault loss
• Advising H&M insurers on coverage issues arising following a catastrophic vessel shell plating failure
• Advising subrogated energy insurers and their insured in a successful recovery action against the colliding vessel in respect of a cargo of downhole equipment lost in the collision
• Advising H&M and P&I insurers of a tug in a successful recovery action against the tow following a collision involving loss of the tug and loss of life ("BORVIGILANT" (2003) 2LLR p.520)