Our specialist team of lawyers has over 35 years of experience advising the construction industry and its insurers. We are familiar with all the changes currently happening in the industry. In particular, as it moves towards partnership contracting and longer term involvement and away from its traditionally confrontational and litigious approach, we provide the high-level of understanding of the complex insurance methods being developed.
Our UK group is based in London, Birmingham and Manchester, with expertise on site in our offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, Madrid, Miami, Sydney, Singapore, and Tuli & Co in New Delhi and Mumbai.
Our expertise stretches from inception to the conclusion of a project specific insurance or is a regular facet of an annual insurance arrangement and includes the drafting of policy and other insurance documents, notices and training presentations to those engaged in a project.
We have vast experience of all the most frequent causes of loss in contractors’ all risks policies, including:
Material damage risks
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Fire, flood, storm, inundation, explosion
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Foreign object damage in plant and machinery
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Deficient design or materials
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Theft
Liability
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Damage to a third party’s property
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Personal injury to third parties
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Interference with rights of way and the like
Work highlights
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Tesco Stores Ltd v Constable – defining the scope of a public liability policy in respect of construction works and that the policy did not insure pure economic loss.
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Successfully defended reinsurers on an issue dealing with the deletion of words in a slip reinsurance policy - Mopani Copper Mines Plc v Millennium Underwriting Ltd.
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Seele Austria v Tokio Marine – the application of a policy deductible to each occasion of loss or damage being £10,000 per window which had been defectively installed, of which there were several, and which did not arise out of a single event.
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Caribbean Hotel – hurricane damaged hotel in the Caribbean which was the subject of a claim for over US$250 million settled in arbitration for US$99 million including interest and costs.
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Motorway pavement – claim for the contractors responsible for the laying of a new road pavement against the project insurers for a new pavement, the original having been defective; claim for £14.5 million settled for £11.5million.