Estudio Carvallo
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The widely-respected insurance law practice at Estudio Carvallo is home to experts in regulatory work, heavyweight disputes, insurance product design, and the drafting of policies and programmes. Other key areas for the team range from distribution agreements and insurance contract structuring, to insurance coverage-related subrogation actions involving transportation, property, surety and liability. The practice additionally handles insurance fraud-related investigations and prosecutions, as well as defending insurers against liability policy and coverage claims. Heading up the office’s legal liability practice, Marcelo Simian, who specialises in civil, labour and criminal litigation, as well as arbitration, provides ‘solid knowledge and timely responses’; María Elena Rivera advises on maritime law, pollution, torts and general civil liability; and senior partner and general manager Manuel Carvallo focuses on insurance law, litigation and consumer law-related class actions. The practice further includes transportation law specialist Carlos Cayazzo; and Francia Villegas, an expert in civil and employer liability, along with labour and social security law.
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Testimonials
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- Manuel Carvallo - solid knowledge and timely responses. Practical in the alternatives he proposes.
- It has a team of agile professionals - timely communications, ongoing advice, and uses technology and other tools for review and investigation in relation to the cases it handles.
Key clients
- HDI Seguros
- Seguros Suramericana (SURA)
Work highlights
Assisted 12 fruit exporters with an insurance and maritime case, in respect of damages to a cherry express vessel carrying cherries from Chile to China, which suffered the loss of propulsion due to a total engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.


