Where necessary, our Policyholder Disputes team works with specialists in our dedicated Fraud, Tax, and Investigations practices to provide a seamless service to policyholders facing regulatory investigations, financial losses, and associated coverage issues.

Together with our leading Insolvency team, we also offer a dedicated combined offering to insolvency practitioners, assisting them to secure coverage of claims against Directors, and to realise unpaid insurance claims as assets in the insolvent estate.

Our experience includes:

• Acting for a leading lender on coverage of costs and liabilities arising from the emerging motor finance commissions investigations and litigation.
• Advising a FTSE listed group of companies on coverage of a multi-million-pound cybercrime loss.
• Acting for the UK operation of a multinational waste recycling conglomerate, in relation to coverage of extensive losses and increased tax liabilities arising from multiple acts of fraud and subsequent HMRC investigation.
• Pursuing insurers of an insolvent defendant company under TPRAI 2010, for an indemnity in respect of securities claims liabilities covered under Side C of the company’s D&O policy.
• Advising administrators and liquidators of Jersey and Guernsey companies on coverage and notification of claims against Directors under London Market D&O policies.
• Advising the liquidators of a New Zealand insurance company on the availability of London market D&O and public offering of securities insurance (POSI) limits to meet claims against the directors.
• Acting for the executives of a suspended retail investment fund in arbitration proceedings over the coverage of defence and regulatory investigation costs.
• Advising an investment manager over coverage of mitigation costs incurred in response to HMRC’s declassification of an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investment scheme.