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Services for global insurers

DWF is a leading global provider of integrated legal and business services underpinned by a rich heritage in insurance. With over 1,700 insurance experts across 30 locations worldwide, we deliver comprehensive solutions tailored to the needs of global and London Market insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, brokers, intermediaries and corporate nominations.

Our unique offering spans both claims and non-claims services, delivering a complete and tailored solution for clients.  By working collaboratively across claims and legal, we proactively identify and address legal issues early, leveraging the full strength of our national and global teams to develop efficient solutions that align with our clients’ business objectives. This close collaboration between claims and legal sets DWF apart. 

Specialist insurance teams

Insurance Legal Advice

Our teams of specialist insurance and reinsurance lawyers provide expert advice to clients worldwide, delivering comprehensive support across claims, coverage, and policy wording matters. With a deep understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges within each sector, we offer expertise across a diverse range of areas, including global risks, specialty lines, cyber and data risks, marine, energy and power, environmental liability, professional indemnity, major injury and casualty, property, motor, and fraud.
 
Claims Management & Adjusting

We help clients navigate the complexities of claims management by combining expertise in volume claims handling, adjusting, consultancy and legal support to deliver swift, cost-effective, and precise solutions across the entire claims lifecycle.

As a fully independent Third-Party Administrator (TPA) operating globally, we excel in managing all classes of commercial lines, including general liability, healthcare, D&O, legal expenses, cyber, and bordereaux management.

Our proprietary claims management system ensures the efficient handling of both high-volume portfolios and complex claims, driving significant efficiencies, reducing costs, and enabling faster, more accurate claim resolutions.

 

 

 
Insurance technology
EvoClaim is DWF's comprehensive claims management solution designed to streamline claims processing and reporting, offering a robust platform for businesses to manage claims effectively and efficiently. It's a secure, cloud-based platform that centralises all claims-related data, providing a single point of access for managing, automating and analysing claims in real-time. With its user-friendly interface, EvoClaim simplifies the complexities of claims management, ensuring that data is protected during transmission. Whether you're looking to improve processes, enhance data security or provide better service to your clients, EvoClaim has the tools and features to help you achieve your goals.
 
Legal Advice for In-House Lawyers

We provide tailored legal advice to insurers and their corporate insureds across the globe, addressing a wide range of commercial needs. Our expertise includes navigating complex data protection and cyber security challenges, crisis management, managing regulatory compliance, tackling corporate crime, handling class actions, and supporting finance and restructuring initiatives.

In addition, we offer tailored guidance on employment and pensions matters, real estate transactions, and portfolio management. 

 
Business Services

Building on our extensive insurance expertise, we offer a range of critical business services to provide strategic and practical support in areas such as cost management, audit support, specialist intelligence services, forensic accountancy, and advocacy through our in-house chambers.

Our multi-disciplinary Legal Operations and Technology team partners with global insurers to enhance internal efficiencies and drive transformation through smart, innovative, and integrated solutions.

Additionally, our Sustainable Business and ESG practice delivers independent assessments of sustainability strategies and action plans, helping clients mitigate risks, optimise performance, and achieve their business goals.

 
Risk Matters
The DWF insurance podcast is your global guide to the latest trends and issues in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Our episodes explore topical issues, emerging technologies and the innovative strategies that are shaping the global future of insurance.
 

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Our Insurance services include

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Business Interruption

We understand that you need a specialist team that can analyse and deal with business interruption disputes rapidly, identifying merits and risks and keeping advice clear and deliverable. This has become especially so following on from the impact of COVID-19.

 
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Complex and Major Injury

With the cost of large claims outstripping inflation by a significant margin, more than ever insurers need to be able to control their indemnity spend.

 
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Construction and Engineering

Spanning domestic and international claims, and whether relating to first party indemnity disputes or a myriad of third party liability matters, we have an outstanding 30-year track record of dealing successfully with a wide range of construction and engineering matters for insurers, loss adjusters and corporates.

 
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Claimant

Being involved in an accident and suffering a personal injury is unpleasant and stressful. You’re looking for a fast, accurate and efficient legal service.

 
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Casualty

Challenging the increasing risk from fraudsters operating within EL and PL claims requires a structured, vigorous and expert legal response, together with efficient claims handling in volume situations.

 
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Data Protection Risks

Data protection is of fundamental importance to the insurance sector. Its status as a regulatory priority has never been higher. Public awareness of data protection rights is at an all time high and GDPR's stringent obligations and enhanced rights are already being tested.

 
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Energy

The team are experienced in handling a wide variety of international energy and renewables related disputes including coverage and defence instructions, and the pursuit of recovery actions following indemnification of policyholders.

 
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FCA and Complaints

With many insurers looking to reduce their litigation spend, combined with a rise in the volume of customers, small businesses and other eligible complainants pursuing complaints via the FOS, we understand the need to respond rapidly to any risk to your commercial reputation.

 
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Fraud

Claim fraud continues to be the insurance industry’s greatest risk, costing insurers billions every year.

 
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Housing Claims

The insurance sector faces key challenges in addressing increasing volumes of housing claims, greater scrutiny and rise in the number of fraudulent claims.

 
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Local Authority

We make sure that austerity and reduced budgets don’t leave you open to risk and public scrutiny.

 
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Global Recovery Group

A market leading programme servicing insurer’s subrogated recovery needs across lines of business and jurisdictions.

 
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Global Risks

Our specialist Global Risks team comprises market-leading experts, who are focused on the classes of business typically written by Lloyd's and other London Market insurers and reinsurers. Our experts are based around the world, and handle high value and complex cases for insurers, reinsurers and syndicates, from event cancellation risks through to reinsurance matters.

 
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Marine and Trade

A focus on international marine and trade brings a need for understanding of insurance legislation, as well as contract certainty, cyber developments and liability, as well as ever-changing regulations and the obligations on underwriters.

 
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Mining Industries and Power

We understand that an increased investment in infrastructure brings a rise in cross border disputes, as well as contract and negligence disputes and challenges in relation to litigation funding.

 
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Motor

Controlling the rising cost of claims whilst enhancing customer service is a key challenge for insurers. Our specialist team of motor specialists can assist. 

 
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Police, Care and Justice

We advise police forces, healthcare, custodial and justice providers with a proven track record of positive outcomes, balancing issues such as reputational risk against a background of an uncertain commercial and economic climate.

 
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Product Liability and Recall

In an age of global trade, product liability provides unique challenges which demand innovative solutions from a multi-disciplinary team. With expertise drawn from leading lawyers in various fields, we can efficiently resolve product liability disputes.

 
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Professional Indemnity

With recognised specialist capability, we handle a full range of professional indemnity matters. Our sector based approach (within professional indemnity) enables us to fully understand the needs of insurers, insureds and brokers.

 
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Property

We stand out for our work delivering commercially relevant, practical solutions on claims, helping insurers and their policyholders to balance risk management with organisational and marketing brand considerations.

 
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Regulatory, Commercial and Corporate Services

Our team of regulatory, commercial and corporate legal experts assist insurer, intermediary, coverholders and service company clients to meet their commercial objectives and manage their regulatory requirements, in a practical and efficient manner.

 
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Speciality Lines

Our global team of specialist lawyers advise across the range of specialty lines and understand the complexity and sometimes sensitivity of issues arising from national and international losses in this market.

 

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