Examples of Richard’s recent experience include:
- Acting for a US client in a series of liability insurance arbitrations concerning losses in excess of $300m arising from one of its products installed in residential homes
- Acting for a financial institution in an €83m insurance coverage dispute concerning a credit insurance policy and in related professional negligence claims
- Acting for a US healthcare provider in an insurance coverage arbitration concerning a significant medical malpractice jury verdict
- Acting on behalf of a major hospitality group in an action for declaratory relief as to whether coverage is available for losses associated with a sex discrimination lawsuit in California
- Acting for Therium Litigation Funding A IC in the widely reported first public challenge to the enforceability of LFAs following the Supreme Court’s decision in PACCAR
- Advising an infrastructure owner/manager in relation to property damage and business interruption insurance claims in excess of £100m
- Acting for Mumbai-based Zen Shipping & Ports in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal ([2018] EWCA Civ 1660) in successfully setting aside a freezing injunction on the basis England was not the proper place to bring the claim
- Acting for a FTSE 100 global pharmaceutical company in 3 significant Bermuda Form (product liability insurance) arbitrations, concerning claims totalling in excess of US$2bn
- Acting for Weyerhaeuser Company in responding to anti-suit injunctions obtained by XL and Catlin ([2018] EWHC 3609 (Comm)), and Hiscox and Starr ([2019] EWHC 2671 (Comm))
- Advising in relation to coverage issues arising under a D&O and corporate liability insurance policy in respect of SFO and DoJ investigations into a client's historic business practices.
