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Indemnity Legal
20 St Dunstan's Hill
United Kingdom
EC3R 8HL
England

Career

Indemnity Legal was founded in February 2020 by James Morris. James is an experienced insurance lawyer specialising in the resolution of complex, high value and high stakes coverage disputes for corporate/commercial policyholders and high net worth individuals. James has particular expertise in resolving disputes under financial lines insurance policies (including D&O, W&I, Commercial Crime, FI Professional Indemnity, Cyber, PTL, EPL, PL, & POSI).

Prior to founding Indemnity Legal, James was a senior lawyer at a Tier 1 policyholder litigation firm in the City of London. Before that, James was an in-house lawyer at a leading international insurance broker, a major loss adjuster at  a global US insurer, and an “insurer’s lawyer” at an international law firm specialising in representing insurers. James is therefore one of only a handful of senior insurance lawyers in the market to have worked on/advised every side of the insurance market at some stage in their career – he brings this depth of experience and market knowledge to Indemnity Legal and its clients to find pragmatic solutions to complex insurance problems as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.

Languages

English, Spanish (intermediate), French (basic)

Memberships

British Insurance Law Association

Lawyer Rankings

London > Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders

(Leading individuals)

James Morris – Indemnity Legal

James Morris leads the team at specialist policyholder insurance practice Indemnity Legal, a team which is praised as  ‘fantastic’ and ‘very knowledgeable and pragmatic‘. It focuses on complex, high value and high stakes work, and has notable experience dealing with Covid-19 business interuption claims. John Curran is ‘an excellent technical lawyer’, and is qualified in both England & Wales and Hong Kong.