Insurance & Torts

Insurance & Torts

About Insurance & Torts 

Our attorneys deal with both national and international complex insurance and liability matters.

Over many years, our Insurance team has gained special experience with disputes whitin professional indemnity, D&O´s and product and commercial liability, where our attorneys both counselling and assist with ongoing claims handlingas well as handling many lawsuits and arbitration proceedings in this area. In addition, our team assists clients in cases at the Danish appeals board.

Our in-depth work with professional liability in all its forms means that we can advise based on the specific professional field, whether it is auditing, law firms, or technical advicers. Our attorneys therefore regularly assist with matters at the appeals board, just as we in the team can assist with matters regarding financial crime.

Our attorneys have many years of experience assisting in the insurance industry with drafting and interpreting insurance terms and conditions.

We have a unique insight into both international and national regulatory matters. Our primary focus are insurance companies, brokers, and agents, and we provide ongoing counselling on insurance mediation. We have an in-depth knowledge of reinsurance and regularly advise on insurance mediation.

Our team has a deep understanding of the legal, commercial, and competitive environment of the insurance sector. If necessary, we can assist insurance companies and insurance brokers with secondments.

Our attorneys advise in large and complex product and commercial liability disputes, which often also contain an international perspective. In cooperation with our clients, we manage to familiarize ourselves with technically complicated material, and based on this, we advise the client in the best possible way from aninsurance law perspective.

Our team also advises on general business law issues regarding commercial contracts and risk management.

We have particularly extensive litigation experience, and several of the firm's litigators have led several principal cases in the area. For several years, we have been involved in some of the largest compensation cases in Danish history against the directors and officers of banks that went bankrupt during the financial crisis, including Amagerbanken A/S, Løkken Sparekasse, and Eik Bank Danmark A/S, just as we are involved in several disputes derived from recent years' bankruptcies in the insurance industry.

Lundgrens' Insurance team provides eye-level counselling, and the premise for our counselling to collaborate and always with af focus on our client´s business.  We always align expectations on an ongoing basis to ensure the most optimal commercial outcome for our clients.

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Professional liability
     
  • Life insurance
     
  • Indemnity insurance
     
  • Regulatory matters
     
  • Cross-border activities
     
  • Compliance & Governance
     
  • Reassurance
     
  • Insurance brokerage