For more information on the Insurance Practice Group, please contact Lynette Chew at lynettechew@harryelias.com.sg.

We have substantial experience in a wide spectrum of insurance-related work ranging from routine solicitor’s work to litigation. Our clients include insurance companies, both local and international and institutional and individual claimants.

The legal services are wide ranging and comprise of all major lines of insurance such as:

• Corporate and commercial policies
• Builder’s and Contractor’s All Risks Policy
• Professional Indemnity
• Product Liability
• Life, Accident and Health
• Employers’ Liability Insurance
• Group insurance policies
• Marine insurance
  

• Policy coverage and policy interpretation
• Commencing legal proceedings by issuing a Writ of Summons, or applying for injunctions in appropriate cases
• Double insurance, disclosure of material facts, breaches of policy conditions
• Compliance and regulatory matters arising from insurance legislation and subsidiary legislation
• Corporate transfer of insurance businesses for insurers
• Drafting or reviewing insurance clauses in agreements and insurance policies
• Fraudulent claims
• Catastrophic and fatal injury claims in road and industrial accidents
• Insurance and risk management issues in events organization
• Re-insurance
  

Transactions

1. Advised the local insurer Aviva and reinsurers in the London market, in an arbitration concerning a dispute under the Builder’s Risk Policy for the Nicoll Highway Collapse and Inquiry.
   
   
2. Advised insurer in a claim relating to fire at a Kwong Min Road warehouse.
   
   
3. Advised insurers on claims relating to MRT works and street works tunneling and properties adjacent to the Circle Line construction.
   
   
4. Advised Energy Market Company on policy coverage for their various insurance policies.
   
   
5. Advised Insurers on claim for damage to property resulting from the construction of a vehicular tunnel from Pan Island Expressway to Ubi Road.