Expert Witness

Shirley has been engaged as an expert witness specialising in reinsurance, professional and financial lines insurances (PI, D&O, BBB, EPLi), business interruption and brokerage issues.

Recent cases include

• Business Interuption insurance dispute centering on insurers' remedies for material non-disclosure (2019)
• Surplus treaty, cession practice and facultative reinsurance protection - Protektor Forsikring vs Munich Re (2019); Norwegian Arbitration following the Grenfell Tower disaster
  
• Policy interpretation/market practice standards - Ted Baker vs Axa (2012) EWHC 1406
  
• Non-disclosure issues in three US banking professional indemnity cases
• Non-disclosure and severability issues in a European Directors & Officers case
• Apportionment issues between BBB and PI in a Swiss Bank
  
• A reinsurance dispute concerning the correct cession of major UK risks between proportional and non-proportional treaties