Serle Court barristers deal with high-value insurance and reinsurance disputes involving difficult legal or factual issues. In particular, individual members have in-depth experience of the Lloyd’s market.

Work done ranges over all industry segments and a wide scope of disputes, including:

professional indemnity insurance;
claims against brokers;
directors and officers insurance;
international jurisdiction disputes;
after-the-event insurance litigation;
energy and marine insurance; and
film finance insurance.

Geraldine Clark is recommended for insurance and re-insurance in Legal Experts.

Some of the cases we have recently worked on are:

Axa Insurance Limited v Various Solicitors. On-going litigation arising from the failure of the Composite Legal Expenses Insurance scheme.

Winterthur Swiss Insurance Company & NIG v AG (Manchester) Limited (in liquidation) (formerly, The Accident Group Limited) ("TAG Litigation") and in the TAG AIL Litigation. Substantial claims arising from the collapse of the TAG after-the-event legal insurance scheme.

BP Exploration and Operating Company v. Kvaerner Oifiled Products Ltd. Dispute over waiver of subrogation rights in an oilfield insurance policy - [2005] 1 Lloyds Rep. 307 (Commercial Court).

Craft Enterprises (International) Ltd v. Axa Insurance Co. Jurisdictional dispute relating to marine insurance - [2004] 2 All ER (Comm) 123 (Court of Appeal).

The Hollywood 4 and 5. Film finance insurance litigation (2002 Commercial Court).

Burrows v. Jamaica Power Co. Ltd. Jurisdictional dispute [2002] Lloyds Rep. IR 466 (Commercial Court).

The Society of Lloyds v. Sir William Jaffray Claims against Lloyds by names in respect of inadequate reserving for asbestosis liabilities (2002) 146 SJLB 214 (Commercial Court and Court of Appeal).

FNCB v. Barnet Devanney Duty of broker in relation to mortgage protection clause [1999] Lloyd's Rep. IR 459 (Court of Appeal).