Andrew Symons
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Work Department
Insurance and reinsurance group.
Position
Partner specialising in a broad variety of insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution work including arbitration, coverage and avoidance issues as well as policy drafting and interpretation. Areas of specialisation include claims involving banks/financial institutions and all classes of non-marine, ?marine and aviation reinsurance. Recent cases include acting for the successful parties in the Kuwait test case (Scott v Copenhagen Re) concerning the aggregation issues arising out of the invasion of Kuwait, acting for the successful parties in the House of Lords decision in Aneco v J&H, as well as other major market reinsurance disputes such as the reinsurance claims arising out of the $780m settlement out of the grounding of the Exxon Valdez (King v Brandywine Re) and coverage/aggregation issues arising out of ?WTC. Also represented Swiss Re, GE, Chubb and other insurers ?in the £500m Central Fund dispute against Lloyds of ?London.
Career
Qualified 1991; partner CMS Cameron McKenna 2001.
Education
King’s College London.
Practice Areas
Litigation - insurance/reinsurance
