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Insurance Coverage Disputes
Our dedicated Insurance Coverage Disputes team is one of Ireland’s leading defence insurance groups and a firm of choice for domestic and international insurance clients
We have significant experience in advising on contentious matters, including policy coverage disputes involving aviation and marine insurance, directors and officers liability, professional indemnity and professional negligence, insurance intermediaries’ liability and employer and public liability.
The team has represented insurer interests in complex proceedings involving multifaceted cross jurisdictional elements. We represent clients in high value disputes in which alternative dispute resolution options are engaged or before the courts, ranging from smaller, local proceedings to high-value fast-track cases in Ireland’s dedicated commercial court.
Relevant Experience
Acting for insurers in the defence of Commercial Court proceedings brought by aircraft lessors alleging an entitlement to insurance cover for aircraft allegedly lost following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Advising insurers, including acting in arbitrations, in relation to policy coverage issues regarding claims by policyholders whose businesses had been closed due to Covid-19.
Advising insurers on policy interpretation matters in the context of recovery of expended outlay following the settlement of a series of claims.
Acting for an insurer client in the defence of a challenge to a refusal of cover in relation to a large property damage claim and associated business interruption claim.
Representing insurers in relation to injunction proceedings issued against them in the High Court seeking to prevent insurers from taking steps to avoid an insurance policy.
Advising insurer client in relation to a coverage dispute following a workplace accident.
Representing the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland in proceedings brought by the Law Society of Ireland regarding liability for claims following the liquidation of Setanta Insurance.
Advising insurers on fatal and catastrophic claims arising out of aircraft incidents.
Acting for insurers in the defence of proceedings brought by a former director of Anglo-Irish Bank in relation to coverage under the bank’s directors & officers policy.
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