Casualty and Professional Services Ltd
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​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
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​CPS is proud to sponsor
​Auckland Helicopter Rescue Trust 
and ​Coastguard Northern Region
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