Lovells' is widely recognised as a market leader for insurance and reinsurance. Our unrivalled combination of global reach and breadth of practice was confirmed last year when we were awarded for the fourth consecutive year the Insurance and Reinsurance Law Firm of the Year by the International Who's Who of Insurance Lawyers (2005 - 2008). We are also the holders of Run-off Advisory Service Provider of the Year Award for 2007.
The group typically handles insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution, operational and regulatory work. We work closely with the corporate insurance teams across the firm.
The insurance and reinsurance team is a distinct area of specialisation at Lovells. In recent years, we have been involved in some of the most significant issues to affect the industry, including disputes relating to September 11 losses, PA LMX and spiral disputes, brokers’ energy covers, D&O coverage, brokers’ contingent commissions, the collapse of Fortress Re, the EMLICO redomestication to Bermuda, financial product mis-selling and laddering claims, APH, aviation bodily injury carve outs, financial reinsurance products. We have also been involved at the forefront of the developing the cross over of finance from the capital markets into the insurance and reinsurance markets.
Full details of our services are outlined in the key services section.
Our focus is on client driven, market-oriented solutions and has attracted a client base which includes insureds, insurers, reinsurers, brokers, companies in run-off, market associations and all manner of service providers to the insurance and reinsurance industry.
Our insurance and reinsurance specialists operate from our offices in Amsterdam, Budapest, Beijing, Chicago, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, Singapore, Tokyo and Warsaw. All offices work closely together to deliver client-focused and market orientated solutions. Many of the cases undertaken by the team involve cross border issues and our international reach means we are able assemble large teams of lawyers from our offices across a number of jurisdictions.