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;
- 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.
- Health & Safety– Investigating Statutory Liability exposures
- Cyber Claims – Hacking Insured’s system and amending documents
Examples of Past Cases:
- Environmental loss – Numerous liability claims involving pollution into land and watercourses
- 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 and artificial reef
- Contract Works – Water damage to IT cabling requiring replacement
- Complex loss - Fire damage to switchboard closing cold store
- Engineering Professional Indemnity - On faulty designs of structure
- Professional Indemnity and efficacy claim - Automation equipment for a sawmill
- Product Liability fire - Claimed 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
- Health & Safety Liability – Fatal accident on construction site – Electrocution
- Health & Safety liability – Fatal accident on site involving a fall
- Health & Safety Liability – Explosion causing injury to employee
- Contractor’s Liability claim – Contamination to technology room equipment after partial handover
- 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
- Product Liability - Involving Cable television suppliers. Liability repudiated
- Environmental loss – Toxic dye spilled into estuary
- Environmental loss liability - Mercury spillage over 20Km and three villages in Peru
- Environmental Loss – Pipeline burst with 77,000L of Jet fuel into the environment
- Cyber – Data breach of 34,000 customer’s details
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