Our team handles a wide range of insurance disputes for a client base that includes international insurers and reinsurers, global composites and Lloyd’s syndicates.
Our Asia Pacific presence ensures that we understand the legal, business and regulatory issues that insurers and reinsurers face in the region. In conjunction with our regional offices we provide clear, commercially aware and pragmatic advice from leading specialists in their field, including trained mediators.
Our team’s depth of experience has ensured that Kennedys has been retained as a panel law firm to a large number of major international insurers and reinsurers.
Our insurance industry experience includes:
- Casualty and liability - acting for insurers on matters arising under public, employers’, product and motor liability policies.
- Construction and engineering - advising insurers on application of policies in construction projects as well as handling disputes arising out of these projects on behalf of insurers and the construction industry.
- Financial and professional risks - advising insurers on a variety of financial lines insurance claims and coverage issues, including professional indemnity, directors’ and officers’, fidelity and financial institutions crime and professional liability. In addition to acting as monitoring counsel, we also provide a bespoke policy drafting service which includes advising on enhancements to policy wordings.Healthcare - advising clients on a wide range of health law issues, policy issues and product liability matters.
- Life - advising life insurers on licensing, compliance, authorisation, product approval, reinsurance issues, commercial, mergers and acquisitions, employment, regulatory matters, transfer of business and agency and broker issues.
- Maritime and international trade - advising clients on charter party disputes, defence work for cargo claims, sale and purchase of commodities, crew injury and casualty claims, coverage disputes, regulatory matters, ship damage/collisions, salvage and general average.