Actuaries & Benefit Consultants

Our Actuaries & Benefit Consultants Work

• All
• UK & Europe

• Coverage and monitoring following employer insolvency and PPF assessment

  Advising on coverage and monitoring in respect of notifications following employer insolvency and PPF assessment period commencing in relation to the Scheme

  Depreciation of fund value and subsequent losses

  Acting in a claim relating to alleged delay in winding up a company pension scheme and losses arising from the resulting fall in the fund value

  Equalising gender benefits following the "Barber" judgement

  Advising on failure to amend a scheme correctly to equalise benefits for men and women following the “Barber” judgment in 1991

  Incorrect "preservation" legislation in rules

  Advising on rules which incorrectly reflected the “preservation” legislation in the Pension Schemes Act 1993

  Incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

  Advising on incorrect drafting of rule consolidations

  Incorrect equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber

  Acting for a national firm and its insurers in relation to a claim brought by trustees of a retirement benefits scheme after advisers failed to carry out correctly the equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber which prevented the equalisation from being legally achieved on the date stated in the scheme documentation

  Knock-on effects of failure to properly amend scheme rules

  Advising on failure to properly amend the scheme rules correctly to reduce future benefits

  Loss of chance claims

  Acting on loss of chance claims

  Misapplication of funds claims against a trustee

  Successfully defending a trustee against a claim relating to misapplication of funds by a scheme member who had represented to the Insured that he was a company employee and therefore entitled to join a company pension scheme, when in fact he was not

  PTL policy claims

  Advising on claims under PTL policies for “exonerated loss” cover

• Coverage

  Initial policy coverage investigations, advice and triaging for a broad book of non injury placed insurance policies

  United Kingdom

  Directors & Officers

  Acting in relation to a claim by an employee in a local grocery business against his employers’ directors after he was seriously injured falling down a lift shaft. Inadequate insurance was in place for the injuries sustained.

   

  United Kingdom

  IT, Technology and Media

  Acting on a delegated authority basis on a portfolio of TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) cases including into small claims and fast track court proceedings

  United Kingdom

  Lawyers

  Acting on a delegated authority basis in relation to a varied book of solicitors pre-litigation professional negligence cases

  United Kingdom

  Property

  Acting for a large number of insurers who offer all or any of professional indemnity, property liability and public liability insurance on a general retainer as well as delegated authority basis in relation to defending over 2,500 retro-fit cavity wall insulation cases including pre-litigation

  United Kingdom

  Surveyors

  Claims handling a book of outsourced pre-litigated and litigated cases against surveyors and valuers

  United Kingdom