Casualty

With deep expertise in navigating high-stakes, multi-party liability scenarios and significant casualty coverage knowledge, our multilingual team excels in cross-border disputes and coordinating litigation across jurisdictions, ensuring seamless solutions for complex challenges.

General Liability

Our General Liability team seamlessly handles both coverage and defence work across civil and regulatory matters, offering insurers comprehensive support in navigating high-stakes liability exposures.

We are experts in managing claims across:

• general liability
• public liability
• employers’ liability
• products liability.

With notable experience in industries such as construction, energy, manufacturing, agriculture and retail we’ve tackled some of the most high-profile cases, including the Grenfell Tower fire and Haverfordwest Weir Paddle Boarding Accident.

Medical and Life Sciences

Our Medical and Life Sciences team has acted for some of the main players in the UK’s biggest and most high-profile litigation in recent years including the MMR litigation, the PIP breast implants litigation, and the “metal on metal hips” litigation. 

We are experts in managing claims across:

• medical malpractice
• product liability
• life sciences
• inquests.

The team has particular experience in handling medical malpractice group or class actions across the full spectrum of healthcare.

Complex Casualty

 In addition to our UK capabilities, we have advise on complex, multi-jurisdictional losses, particularly in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and Asia. Our market-leading experience advises on high severity losses including:

• catastrophic events (accidents, explosions, spillages, pipeline ruptures, landslides, infrastructure collapses)
• environmental exposures
• product liability
• legacy/long tail claims (toxic torts, pollution, workplace disease).

Regularly advising London, Bermuda and other global insurers on large-scale public and products exposures under primary and excess liability covers.

We advise on complex coverage issues and assessing exposure (including quantum modelling) under occurrence based, claims made and occurrence reported (Bermuda Form) programmes and are well placed to advise on losses facing the UK, International and US casualty markets. Recent matters include advising on climate change litigation against carbon majors, PFAS “forever chemicals” claims in the US and beyond, issues arising from a landslide in Asia and third party claims brought in relation to flooding incidents in Africa.

Product liability and environmental claims

Frequently liaising with Trading Standards and product regulators, our team is well-prepared to defend product liability claims. In environmental matters, we advise on sudden and gradual pollution exposures, EA and HSE prosecution defence, and international claims involving oil spills, explosions, and fires. Our experience includes work on high-stakes environmental events like the 2015 Fundao Dam collapse in Brazil, PFAS chemical exposures, climate change litigation, and occupational disease claims in mining sectors worldwide.

Motor claims and catastrophic injury expertise

Our motor liability practice is recognised for handling high-value claims, particularly those involving catastrophic injuries, including serious brain and spinal injuries and amputations. Our seamless integration of motor liability with health and safety support enables us to guide clients effectively in both civil and criminal courts.

Global reach with local expertise

Through our affiliation with Global Access Lawyers, we ensure collaboration with top-tier international law firms, providing local expertise that helps reduce costs and indemnity spend.

No matter the scale or complexity of your casualty insurance claim, our team has the experience and specialised knowledge to assist.

Contact one of our experts today for an initial conversation.