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We advise insurers on coverage in relation to claims against investment advisers, asset managers and hedge funds.
We have considerable experience in drafting polices dealing with coverage issues and advising insurers and the insured on the defence of complex claims, in what is a continually changing and expanding.
Our team provides focused risk management and advice tailored to the commercial, regulatory and reputational pressures financial professionals face. We can provide general errors and omissions risk management and pre-litigation risk mitigation advisory services to professional firms. We also advise insurers active in the professional liability market on policy drafting, and offer monitoring, coverage and claims notification agency services.
Advising on coverage and monitoring in respect of notifications following employer insolvency and PPF assessment period commencing in relation to the Scheme
Acting in a claim relating to alleged delay in winding up a company pension scheme and losses arising from the resulting fall in the fund value
Advising on failure to amend a scheme correctly to equalise benefits for men and women following the “Barber” judgment in 1991
Advising on rules which incorrectly reflected the “preservation” legislation in the Pension Schemes Act 1993
Advising on incorrect drafting of rule consolidations
Acting for a national firm and its insurers in relation to a claim brought by trustees of a retirement benefits scheme after advisers failed to carry out correctly the equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber which prevented the equalisation from being legally achieved on the date stated in the scheme documentation
Advising on failure to properly amend the scheme rules correctly to reduce future benefits
Acting on loss of chance claims
Successfully defending a trustee against a claim relating to misapplication of funds by a scheme member who had represented to the Insured that he was a company employee and therefore entitled to join a company pension scheme, when in fact he was not
Advising on claims under PTL policies for “exonerated loss” cover
Advising on coverage and monitoring in respect of notifications following employer insolvency and PPF assessment period commencing in relation to the Scheme
Acting in a claim relating to alleged delay in winding up a company pension scheme and losses arising from the resulting fall in the fund value
Advising on failure to amend a scheme correctly to equalise benefits for men and women following the “Barber” judgment in 1991
Advising on rules which incorrectly reflected the “preservation” legislation in the Pension Schemes Act 1993
Advising on incorrect drafting of rule consolidations
Acting for a national firm and its insurers in relation to a claim brought by trustees of a retirement benefits scheme after advisers failed to carry out correctly the equalisation of retirement ages in accordance with Barber which prevented the equalisation from being legally achieved on the date stated in the scheme documentation
Advising on failure to properly amend the scheme rules correctly to reduce future benefits
Acting on loss of chance claims
Successfully defending a trustee against a claim relating to misapplication of funds by a scheme member who had represented to the Insured that he was a company employee and therefore entitled to join a company pension scheme, when in fact he was not
Advising on claims under PTL policies for “exonerated loss” cover
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