Weightmans LLP

Specialty Core

Consultant - Specialty Core

Alain Orengo is a Consultant Solicitor in the Speciality team based in the London office and has over 22 years’ experience in defending professional indemnity claims, and dealing with professional regulatory disputes or disciplinary inquiries before regulatory bodies.

He acts for insurers (and their professional insureds), as well as legacy run-off specialists (working closely on run-off portfolios to collaboratively deliver economic and legal finality to claims) and has been instructed as monitoring counsel on run-off claims in Guernsey to oversee and ensure the proactive progress, and cost-effective settlement of claims.

He has extensive experience in defending claims against a range of traditional professions, including solicitors, licensed conveyancers and costs lawyers, commercial and residential surveyors and valuers, accountants, insurance brokers, estate agents and managing agents, architects, building surveyors and engineers, and construction professionals.

He also pursues contribution claims arising from settled professional indemnity claims and subrogated recoveries on behalf of insurers arising from property damage, including fires, explosions, floods and subsidence, as well as associated business interruption.

Alain also advises insurers on policy coverage involving professional indemnity insurance, including minimum terms, issues arising from claim/circumstance notification clauses, excess and limit of indemnity aggregation, various exclusion clauses, material non-disclosure/misrepresentation and avoidance.

He has extensive litigation experience in all divisions of the High Court involving complex and high value claims, and also significant experience of arbitrations involving policy disputes. Alain also regularly acts as advocate in mediations and is an effective negotiator. He has conducted many mediations and has an established record of success with a reputation for being robust, whilst also taking a common-sense and pragmatic approach to commercial dispute resolution.

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