Our experts advise on coverage, recovery and defence, and have experience in all forms of dispute resolution, including in international and appellate courts, as well as mediation, arbitration and adjudication.

First party coverage disputes handled by our Energy team have included complex multi-million and billion pound disputes under insurance and reinsurance contracts. They regularly advise on coverage issues under CAR policies and the interrelated contractual obligations.

Our Third Party Liability claims experience spans activities in the construction and engineering of energy projects, as well as catastrophic loss events, resulting in damage to property, or injury or death. Advice can cover environmental and pollution issues, through to subsidence and collapse, explosions and fires, flooding, health and safety, and issues with sub-contractors.

In the Reinsurance arena, our team has extensive experience of working on disputes that arise under facultative covers, whether fronting arrangements or excess of loss contracts. We have had success in facilitating settlements and litigating claims relating to the particular tensions that can arise under reinsurance structures.

Our Energy team advise on a full spectrum of energy claims and coverage matters including:

Onshore, Offshore
Renewable Energy
First party coverage
Third Party Liability
Reinsurance
Subrogated Recoveries

We have a successful record of pursuing subrogated recovery actions recouping insurers' outlays paid under their own policies. One action followed the failure in design and operation of steam hatches serving the pipework of a steam turbine in Trinidad and Tobago, involving issues of metallurgical fracture analysis and 'quenching'.

In the Renewable area, our Energy team has dealt with numerous claims and coverage matters, including related to defective design of a hydroelectric pressure tunnel in Peru, business interruption losses suffered by a solar plant in Morocco, and damage to UK wind turbines, involving consideration of wear and tear and latent defect exclusions.

Our advice has included:

Advising on coverage in an excess USD $2bn claim and the calculation of material damage loss issues following damage to a MENA oil refinery.
Coverage dispute and later subrogated recovery action following damage to an onshore oil well during drilling operations in Qatar.
Acting for London Market insurers on environmental impact claims made in Latin America following the construction of a hydroelectric dam.
Advising London Market and international insurers on coverage, insurance settlement and the resultant USD $350m subrogated recovery action arising from catastrophic explosions at a petrochem plant in Saudi Arabia. Including an assessment of defective plant design.
Advising the reinsurance market on the proper application of a NMA 2738 Claims Control Clause in a reinsurance of a power facility in Costa Rica.
Advising reinsurers on policy application where the terms of cover between the insurance and reinsurance differed in connection with an explosion at a Cyprus power plant, and the application of a War and Terrorism exclusion.

Please contact us for more information about our expertise.