Liability litigation
We defended an industrial firm in several actions brought after it marketed a defective insulation product in France and Europe,
We acted for an engineering company against a Canadian supplier on the termination of a sale contract for a dynamic scanner, on compensation for the consequential losses and on the implications on the leasing contract,
We assisted French and foreign companies in organising campaigns to withdraw from the market electric components and light bulbs presenting a fire hazard, in France and Europe (RAPEX),
We acted for a French company against an American supplier of IT equipment which caused a mobile telephone network outage,
We defended several contractors facing financial claims brought further to the collapse of terminal 2E at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, a fire at Georges Pompidou hospital and a fire occured during the construction works of an office tower in La Défense,
We analysed the liabilities and remedies against a German supplier following an equipment breakdown that hampered the construction of an LNG terminal.
The firm advises, represents and defends companies within the framework of technical or contractual pre-litigation and lawsuits, concerning performance of complex operations (including cocontracting, joint ventures, subcontracting), product liability and their withdrawal from the market (national and European recall procedures) or crisis management following major incidents (collapses, fires, pollution) requiring knowledge of technical issues and evaluation of economic losses.
Insurance law
We have assisted companies to review, amend and update their insurance policies and programmes,
Liability: we handle insurance litigation for companies involved in serial claims (asbestos-related occupational illnesses, defective solar panels, etc.); we provide advisory and litigation services in insurance for regulated professions (particularly statutory auditors), and we advised a stock broker on coverage of financial losses caused by an error in the transmission of buy orders during an IPO.
Officers liability: we enforced D&O policies as part of liability actions for mismanagement due to foreign exchange financial losses, actions for repayment of liabilities in a bankrupcy context and for infringement of secrutiies law, and we arranged cover for directors of foreign real-estate companies,
Fraud: we enforced a financial institutions bond insurance in a case of international fraud, a hull insurance policy following the hijacking of several hundred industrial containers in Asia, and a property insurance policy to compensate for thefts of platinum in a glass manufacturing plant,
Business interruption: we enforced insurance policies to cover financial losses caused by a mobile telephone network outage, the fire of a theatre.
The firm provides advisory and litigation services for companies and professionals experiencing insurance issues, either in arranging and analysing insurance policies or programmes, or in cases of damages and professional liability claims. We particularly assist companies and professionals from all sectors in enforcing insurance cover, including within the framework of complex, multi-party litigation (mainly as a result of coinsurance and insurance layers) or litigation involving foreign courts and arbitral tribunals; our practice covers all areas of corporate risk insurance.
This is one of the firm’s major fields, covering professional liability, operating liability, directors' liability and product liability insurance, for all questions concerning analysis of coverage, handling of legal proceedings, succession of policies in time, coinsurance, insurance layers, international insurance programmes, and serial claims occurring in France and/or abroad.
Property and technical risk insurance
The firm handles all insurance issues concerning damages affecting corporate property, industrial sites or commercial premises (fires, explosions, floods, pollution, etc.), requiring technical analysis and evaluation of consequential losses conducted with the support of experts recognised in these different fields; we are also active in fraud and embezzlement insurance matters, particularly on an international scale.
Construction insurance
We have advised construction and engineering companies on the insurability of complex or innovative buildings (office towers, Foundation Louis Vuitton),
We handled litigation and arbitration resulting from the enforcement of the construction all risks (CAR) policy of the Channel Tunnel,
We enforced construction all risks (CAR) policies for claims occurring during works performance (collapse of a wall during the renovation of the Aquitaine bridge, settlement of a building foundations, fire in an office tower in La Défense),
We handle litigations over compulsory post-acceptance warranties (Single worksite insurance policy, property insurance "dommages-ouvrage" for major defects, ten-year civil liability, etc.),
We enforced liability insurance policies to compensate the consequential damages arising from defects or faulty design in constructions or supplies (immobilisation of a boring machine during the construction of the undersea tunnel of a LNG terminal, economic loss resulting from the collapse of Terminal 2E at Roissy airport for airlines companies as well as retail and catering operators),
We enforced civil engineering liability policies for material and consequential damages following rail and earthworks carried out abroad.
As we are specialised in construction law, we handle all areas of compulsory or optional construction insurances, on all matters and policies relating to the construction process and the liability of professionals.
