​Experience

Our experience is based in the commercial and industrial sectors.  It includes claims involving:

• Manufacturing – General manufacturing in a range of commercial and domestic products;
• Construction – Major civil engineering projects to commercial developments;
• Contracting – all trades liability exposures
• IT and Technology – Software and Hardware failures to perform etc;
• Electronics - Including design and development;
• Engineering and design – Professional Indemnity for the Engineering, Surveying and Architectural sectors;
• Hospitality – Hotels and Conference Centres;
• Travel & Tourism – Tour operators and travel agents;
• Beverage and Drinks – Product taint or contamination, bottling plants etc;
• Environmental – Pollution and land contamination;
• Transport and Transportation – Rail, Road, Sea and Aviation sectors;
• Food – Contamination and Recall;
• Security – Alarms, security services and monitoring stations;
• Legal – Professional indemnity for lawyers and expert witnesses.
• Service & Repair – power generation to agricultural and marine works
  
• Cyber – social engineering claims
  

Examples of Past Cases:

• Fidelity Guarantee Claims – fraud and theft of stock claims valued at over $2 million
• Fraud claim – fraudulent theft over $300,000 – declined under policy
• Contract Works claims including:  office blocks, civil works, hospitals, schools, artificial reef etc.
• Contract Works – water damage to IT cabling requiring replacement
• Complex Liability - fire to switchboard closing cold store & liability for fire in council offices
• Engineering Professional Indemnity - on faulty designs of structures and vehicles
• Professional Indemnity and efficacy claim -  Automation equipment for a sawmill
• Product Liability fires – numerous claims over $1 million
• Product Liability - wine bottling plant breakdown causing contamination to customer’s wine
• Product Liability – alleged taint contamination to whisky with worldwide recall - Repudiated
• Solicitors Indemnity - wrongful advice to clients
• Professional Indemnity – surveyor’s inaccurate setting out of a site incurring redevelopment costs
• Professional indemnity – failure to identify geotechnical changes correctly
• Professional Indemnity – Incorrect travel advice
• Professional Indemnity – Real Estate Agents – Valuations and Property management – declined
• Professional Indemnity – Architect’s failure to consider fire ratings or Building Code compliance
• H&S Liability – fatal accident on construction site – Electrocution
• H&S liability – fatal accident on site involving a fall
• Contractor’s Liability – contamination to technology room equipment after partial handover
• Contractor’s Liability – existing structure collapse due to failure to follow drawings
• Tourist Liability & Prosecution defence – Insured accused of shooting companion in Waikato
• Product Liability – defective product caused damaging changes in multi-storey building
• Product Liability – incorrect packaging and labelling
• Environmental loss – toxic dye spilled into estuary & CCA spilled in same area a year later
• Environmental loss – pipeline burst with aviation fuel spill under pressure
• Cyber – Data Breach liability and consequential loss on 37,500 customer’s details
• Cyber – consequential loss following Crypto locker virus

​CPS is a member of Site Safe New Zealand – member number 914105