Legal Services for Brokers (March 2024)

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Sector specialisms

- Hacking, extortion/ransomware, data breach, denial of service attack, theft of confidential information and business interruption. Our lawyers can deal with all of the legal issues in relation to a cyber claim. - Contentious and non-contentious Intellectual Property matters across the entire Intellectual Property (IP) lifecycle, from development and licensing to infringement disputes; our IP specialists work with skill, passion and niche technical and commercial expertise. Transportation and logistics - Bus and coach claims in both the civil and criminal courts, dealing with EL, PL and motor claims for bus and coach claims - Employers’ liability and public liability rail claims on behalf of train operators, ferry terminal owners, airports service companies, bus and coach companies and light rail. - Aviation industry claims such as airside RTAs and claims brought by airport personnel including repetitive stress injury, upper limb disorders and cumulative back injuries, as well as cases of airside deafness arising from prolonged exposure to airport concourse noise, and aero toxicity claims.

Retail - Immediate legal advice and representation wherever required, at police, HSE and local authority investigations. - Handling claims arising from exposure to hazardous substances, landfills or contaminated watercourses. - Advising on anti-social behaviour, possession, drafting tenancy agreements and leases, and handling issues of access. - Defendant claims services, road transport regulatory advice, policy coverage, counter-fraud investigations, recovery of insured and uninsured losses and defending RTA prosecutions. - Investigating and defending casualty claims, with knowledge of the specific liability issues that arise in the retail sector. - Product-related disputes, recalls, prosecutions and reputation-sensitive matters on behalf of multi-national corporations, retailers, suppliers and their insurers Technology - Data breach responses (including ICO Investigations and Enforcement), advising on contentious and non-contentious matters, working with a range of high- profile clients and their brokers.

Utilities - Personal injury claims arising out of slips and trips as a result of a variety of issues to include missing apparatus covers, defective covers and defective reinstatement, missing safety barriers around excavations in the highway. - Defending claims brought by customers claiming business interruption or vexatious claims that do not fall for coverage under and insurance policy. - Recoveries against a third party who is not co-operate, including deliberate tactics to frustrate the claims and other reasons, such as policy issues between the defendant and its insurer. - Damage to third party property as a result of either work undertake or under Motor Trade policies cases - Subsidence claims from water mains bursts to tree root damage we work closely with the customer, loss adjuster, engineer, arboriculturalist and insurer to resolve cases quickly - Damage to vehicles from apparatus covers. - Cable damage and or utility strikes.

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