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Richard Breavington

020 3060 6341 richard.breavington@rpc.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Insurance and reinsurance.

Position

Partner. Richard is a highly experienced insurance and reinsurance lawyer who has acted on a broad range of insurance claims and non-claims disputes. His specialisms are:

• Cyber insurance, particularly incident response
• Technology errors & omissions claims
• Non-claims advice to insurers’ in-house legal teams, including on reinsurance issues
• Property and PI claims – particularly technology-related

His experience includes:

• Advising on various cyber breach incidents – heading up the team providing RPC’s award-winning cyber breach response service, ReSecure
• Advising on a dispute relating to the recoverability of ICO fines under cyber insurance as a matter of English law
• Advising on various technology-related disputes, ranging from product and software functionality / implementation to liability for cyber breach incidents
• Advising a price comparison company following a malfunction on its website affecting information passed to product providers, including on regulatory aspects regarding customer notification
• Advising a reinsured on the interaction between reinsurance structures in place to protect exposure to high value property catastrophes
• Advising Royal & SunAlliance in relation to the Court of Appeal case of Coles v Hetherton, which concerned the process and principles for recovery of motor repair costs from at fault drivers’ insurers.

Career

Trained Herbert Smith; qualified 2004; RPC 2011; partner 2014.

Education

Waingels College; Bristol University (LLB, First); Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (LPC)

Leisure

Reading; theatre; music; running.