JANUARY 2010
- David Rogers our highly experienced commercial lawyer consultant has been retained to project manage a major arbitration involving approx £100M
- Instructed to support an international insurer on the property damage and BI losses with multi million reserves involving hydro-electric plant in South America
- Audit/review in Ireland of the performance of various adjusters and indemnity spend issues
DECEMBER 2009
- Instructions from major Insurer to handle and adjust substantial flood losses in Cockermouth
- Instructions from major Insurer to handle and adjust fire loss at government funded office in Hastings
NOVEMBER 2009
- Instructions to adjust multi million pound fire in Essex - PD & BI
- Rolling audit and best practice consultancy for Irish Insurer in relation to panel adjuster performance and advanced claims handling techniques
- Instructions from US Insurer to adjust major high net worth water damage claim
OCTOBER 2009
- Instructions from international insurer re serious fire in bus depot in Lyons, France - PD/BI reserves 12M Euros
- Major motor personal injury audit for UK Bank Insurer
- Motor audit in Ireland and N. Ireland for European insurer
- Adjusting instructions from US Insurer. PD and BI following fire in West End language training school
- Instructions from US Insurer to adjust major high net worth theft claimAUGUST 2009
- Instructions to handle and supervise series of catastrophic motor injury claims with reserves in the range £100k to £8M
- Instructions from International company re multi million pound PD/BI loss following breakdown at power plant in GreeceJULY 2009
- Adjusting of major fire loss in Germany estimated at around 100M euros for international insurer. Instruction includes both property and business interruption
- Adjusting of fire loss for new US based insurer client involving commercial risk fire loss in west end of London
- Instructions to handle ‘incident management’ and adjusting aspects of major, multi-million £ loss in Liverpool following collapse of crane on blocks of apartments, including urgent re-housing of residentsJUNE 2009
- Instructions from international insurer to investigate and manage peronal injury claim in Italy with potential for major products recall following explosion of wine bottle
- Audit instructions from UK insurer to review outstanding liabilitiesAPRIL 2009
- Property damage adjusting cases for US based Insurers following substantial flooding of municipal buildings in NE of England
- Audit and Review for leading Insurers in Ireland - comparitve study of loss adjusting performance with particular reference to claims spend
- Consulting project on claims best practice for Irish Insurer
- Italian Earthquake - management and adjustment of multi million euro losses for international Insurer
- Products liability investigation for major European Insurer involving serious personal injury in UKMARCH 2009
- Substantial Energy market business interruption loss involving power generation plant failure near to Pisa, Italy. Reserve of £11M
- Overview of the technical handling, processes and procedures for large private motor claims on behalf of major UK Motor InsurerFEBRUARY 2009
- Professional indemnity large loss review for major UK insurance group
- Instructions from major Insurance Group regarding escalating Business Interruption claim in Ireland arising from machinery breakdown in 2005
JANUARY 2009
- Instructed by City Lawyers as expert witness in wording issue applicable to Average Daily Value Deductible Clauses
- Serious Energy loss and business interruption at hydro electric plant in Colombia instructed by Latin America office of major international Insurer
- Audit and review for international Insurer in Ireland - including ongoing recommendations as part of Claims Process improvement projectDECEMBER 2008
- Review and oversee role regarding £17M property damage and business interruption claim at logistics warehouse in the Netherlands instructed by major international Insurer
- Motor - major audit for international insurer in Italy focusing on large loss/injury cases - combined UK/Italian audit teamNOVEMBER 2008
- Providing technical knowledge and experience to change project being run by global composite insurer focusing on major personal injury cases
- PI audit for major UK specialist insurer focusing on technical aspects and best practise
- Multi disciplinary audit for Italian insurer. Motor, Property and Engineering classes
- IT based audit for Japanese insurer focusing in an innovative way on TPAs data integrity
- Reinspection audits for US insurer focusing on adjusters performance throughout UK
- Rolling programme of audits for Irish insurer measuring adjusters performance and seeking performance improvementsOCTOBER 2008
- Instructions on £81M Third Party Business Interruption claim from two major international insurers
- Major fashion house loss in New York - adjusting multi million business interruption claim for international insurerSEPTEMBER 2008
- Global foodstuffs company in United States - multi million dollar factory fire - instructions from international insurer
- Audit assignment - re inspection of live adjusting cases for US based Insurer in UK
- Audit assignment review of adjusting firms in Ireland for international insurerJULY 2008
- BI adjustment following major fire at printing works estimated at £3M
- Process and systems audit/ review for International Insurer
- Re-inspection audit/review of adjusted claims following Hull July 07 floods
- Business Interruption instructions from international insurer to adjust £13M complex claim at meat processing plant/abattoir in Surrey
JUNE 2008
- Audit/review of major loss ‘Buncefield’ cases handled by adjusting company for UK-based insurerMAY 2008
- Reinsurance recovery action for asbestos claims audited in 2007
- Reinspection audit of adjusters’ ‘major loss’ files for losses arising out of Buncefield explosion
- Expert witness on UK based BI loss
- Technical review of £4m BI loss arising out of fire damage at a UK based manufacturing company in August 07
APRIL 2008
- Adjustment – Storm damage at Newcastle Falcons’ stadium – UK insurer client
- Supplemental audit following review of a motor claims operation in 2007
- Expert witness on £2m BI loss arising out of a fire at an hotel in the north of England some 6 years agoMARCH 2008
- Personal injury motor claim adjustment. Currently waiting details of third party medical evidence
- Technical assistance/report preparation regarding 3 ‘energy’ (power generation plants) losses in Italy which, respectively, have reserves of €4m (now settled), €6.5m and €4.5mFEBRUARY 2008
- Adjustment for UK insurer – Multi-million £ subsidence on major London estate
- Reinspection audit – review of adjusters’ settled files – US insurer clientJANUARY 2008
- Expert Witness case -Broker’s PI – Quantum – Valuation of army surplus stock – Trial just concluded – awaiting judgement
- Expert Witness case – Subrogation against negligent contractor – fire in restaurant – Scope of repairs/Quantum – Settlement negotiated pre-trial
- Project management/adjustment – 40m Euro fire – Bread-making factory in Germany – UK-based insurer client plus co-insurers
- Product liability adjustment, contamination of semi-conductors. FCL are instructed to deal with insured and un-insured aspects for the client and insurer. Settlement negotiations + third party recovery action in progress
Ongoing:- Project management/adjustment – 40m Euro fire – Bread-making factory in Germany – UK-based insurer client plus co-insurers
- Complex loss adjusting/project management - Multi-million £ hotel fire – PD/BI - Wales
- Complex loss adjusting/project management - Major chemical factory fire – PD/BI – Belgium
- Investigation of a major food industry product recall claim
- US pharmaceutical litigation – review of documentation for the defence
- Recovery of aggregate deductible and captive retentions from a portfolio of international casualty programmes
- Audit and training/development programmes – UK and international
- Complex loss adjusting/project management - Multi-million Euro factory fire claim – PD/BI – Italy- Case review & Dispute resolution on series of power generation losses in South America - PD/BI– Multi-million $ losses in Arbitration
- Various public, product and employers liability claims handling
- Reconciliation of claims accounting between co-insurers on an international programme
- Review/analysis of a portfolio of asbestos claims
- Appointment to project-manage and provide technical adjusting advice on major insurers’ portfolio of claims in Cancun area of Mexico following Hurricane ‘Wilma’
- Comparative review for Underwriters of outsourcers in professional indemnity market
- Expert witness appointment in relation to series of Jewellers Block claims- Audit of captive, insured and reinsured programme of major UK plc
- Audit of international insurance company’s entire Claims department – cross-class/all disciplines – resulting in substantial case closure and reduction in reserves
- Complex loss adjusting/review – multi-million Euro factory fire – Germany
- Complex loss adjusting/project management – Major furnace break-out claim – PD/BI – Belgium
