Insurance Defence & Coverage Litigation
First- and third-party defence, policy interpretation, coverage disputes, duty-to-defend analysis, and reservation of rights strategy.
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Core expertise.
Disciplined defence.
Seven insurance-defence disciplines run by senior counsel, structured for early evaluation, predictable reporting, and proportionate litigation spend.
Tender a file →Coverage, liability, recovery, and professional-risk files require practical judgment before procedural momentum takes over.
We build a file plan around exposure and economics: what must be proven, what can be resolved, and what pressure points will change the result.
Practice areas
Subrogation & Recovery Actions
Recovery against at-fault third parties in property, fire, product failure, and contractor-loss matters.
→Professional Liability (E&O)
Defence of architects, engineers, brokers, accountants, and regulated professionals.
→Product Liability Defence
Defence of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and suppliers from early assessment through trial.
→Environmental & Regulatory Liability
Contamination claims, spill events, compliance matters, and cost-recovery actions.
→Construction & Builders' Liability
Construction defect, delay, contractual, and professional negligence claims involving builders, trades, and consultants.
→Motor Vehicle & Personal Injury Defence
Personal and commercial auto liability claims, bodily injury, accident benefits, and catastrophic impairment strategy.
→Tender package
Pleadings, policies, reservation of rights history, adjuster notes, expert materials, and any limitation or procedural dates already known.
First report
Early exposure view, proposed file plan, budget assumptions, reporting cadence, and decision points for coverage, liability, quantum, and recovery.
Panel compliance
Billing codes, reporting templates, litigation-management platforms, and carrier-specific guidelines are confirmed before work scales.
Resolution windows
Mediation, arbitration, negotiation, and dispositive steps are assessed against economics rather than treated as default milestones.
Carried forward
Detailed service scope.
Coverage detail
- Coverage opinions and reservation of rights analysis
- Declaratory relief actions and priority-of-coverage disputes
- Additional insured and contractual coverage issues
- Business interruption, appraisal-related, property, and farm policy disputes
Recovery detail
- Subrogation investigations and liability analysis
- Recovery actions against at-fault third parties
- Cost-recovery coordination in environmental and property loss matters
- Quantum assessment and damage calculations
Specialty liability
- Professional standards, negligence, and breach-of-duty claims
- Product defect analysis and expert coordination
- Regulatory defence, contamination claims, and remediation disputes
- Construction defect, delay, scope, and design-professional E&O matters
Commercial litigation
- Contract disputes and breach-of-contract claims
- Directors and officers liability defence
- Cyber liability and data breach litigation
- Employment-practices, shareholder, and partnership disputes
Method
Early resolution.
Disciplined defence.
We press when pressure is useful, resolve when resolution is rational, and report so claims teams can act decisively.
Assess
Liability, quantum, coverage, and evidentiary gaps are mapped at the outset.
Plan
Budgets, reporting cadence, discoveries, experts, and settlement windows are set before cost drifts.
Resolve
Mediation, arbitration, negotiation, and litigation pressure are used in proportion to exposure.