Harnessing extensive industry experience, Lockton’s dedicated Casualty Insurance team is uniquely equipped to help you safeguard your assets and protect your bottom line in the event of a claim, whether it be for third-party property damage, injury caused by products, employee illness, or disease. Our practice specialises in managing, structuring and placing multinational programmes, providing continuous support across captive and reinsurance placements, as well as offering statistical claims analysis and bespoke risk management services.

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Innovative cover to transfer your unique risks

Lockton specialises in the design and placement of cost-effective, tailored liability programmes that respond immediately in the event of a claim.

Offering exclusive access to the entire global insurance marketplace, we’ll source the optimum solution to help you transfer the unique risks you face. Our placement strategy for each client is bespoke and designed to best match your exposures, and we’ll only work with insurers that understand your business and can provide the right coverage and service for you.

We will bring a full range of programme design alternatives backed by advanced analytics to inform decision making. This may include the use of alternative risk finance techniques and captive insurers where relevant and of value.

The Lockton Casualty team works across all industry sectors, including those with complex risk challenges or high claim activity, providing a lasting solution for all. We are rigorous in our analysis of policy coverage to ensure you benefit from the broadest available terms.

Our services

Our technical expertise and coverage extensions

  • Public and products liability

  • UK employers’ liability

  • Excess liability

  • Motor fleet

  • Environmental liability

  • Medical malpractice

  • Professional liability

  • Financial loss

  • Product recall

  • Product guarantee

What we bring to your business

  • Business continuity management - We take a holistic approach to business continuity management (BCM), identifying potential internal and external threats to your organisation and helping you build resilience with a planned response.

  • Claims defensibility - Our broking team work as one with our experienced claims team will help you navigate the challenging liability claims environment, preparing you for complex legal duties and strict timescales involved during the claims process. We will analyse your data and incident reporting processes, while delivering bespoke training to improve the likely outcome of potential claims.

  • Risk management initiatives - Working in tandem with leading insurers, we will help you create co-funded, effective health and safety and risk management initiatives to reduce the likelihood and the severity of any incident and subsequent losses.

Our Casualty Insurance Team

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Tony Hardy

Partner
Tony.Hardy@lockton.com
+44 207 933 2893

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James Pryke

Head of placement
james.pryke@lockton.com
+44 207 933 2895

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Sara Baker

Liability Placement Broker
sara.baker@lockton.com
+44 207 933 2203

General Inquiries

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enquiries@uk.lockton.com

News and Insights

Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance broker, is proud to announce two key senior promotions within its Crisis Management team. Helen Sandford has been appointed as Head of Special Crime and Freddie Schlesinger has been appointed as Head of Product Recall and Reputational Risk, effective 1st May 2024. They will both support the continued growth of the Crisis Management team, which includes War, Terrorism & Political Violence, Special Crime, and Product Recall & Reputational Risk under one roof. Helen and Freddie will report to Matt Humphries, Head of Crisis Management.Lockton announces senior promotions in Crisis Management team

Lockton announces senior promotions in Crisis Management team

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Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance broker, is proud to announce two key senior promotions within its Crisis Management team. Helen Sandford has been appointed as Head of Special Crime and Freddie Schlesinger has been appointed as Head of Produc ...
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Law firms: limiting liability in engagement letters

Most firms very wisely seek to limit their liability to clients in their engagement letters. It makes sense to do this so the firm and the client both know how much financial compensation might be available if things go wrong. But while limiting liability is good risk management practice, such clauses must be drafted carefully to be effective. Problems arise where the perceived losses are more than the limit of liability contained in the engagement letter. And if restrictions and exclusions are too onerous, they could be deemed unenforceable, leaving liability unrestricted. Most firms very wisely seek to limit their liability to clients in their engagement letters. It makes sense to do this so the firm and the client both know how much financial compensation might be available if things go wrong. But while limiting liability is good risk management practice, such clauses must be drafted carefully to be effective. Problems arise where the perceived losses are more than the limit of liability contained in the engagement letter. And if restrictions and exclusions are too onerous, they could be deemed unenforceable, leaving liability unrestricted.

Hydrogen vehicles and refuelling stations: property considerations

Increasing fuel costs and the ongoing need to reduce carbon emissions means that businesses continue to look at reducing their reliance on the fossil fuel internal combustion engine. Electric vehicles are at present the main contender, although hydrogen-based technology could provide another alternative for commercial vehicles. Hydrogen has been used for many decades in various industries and provides a high energy density fuel when burned, producing no greenhouse gases. However, hydrogen also presents several hazards and there are safety factors to consider when planning its storage and use. Increasing fuel costs and the ongoing need to reduce carbon emissions means that businesses continue to look at reducing their reliance on the fossil fuel internal combustion engine. Electric vehicles are at present the main contender, although hydrogen-based technology could provide another alternative for commercial vehicles. Hydrogen has been used for many decades in various industries and provides a high energy density fuel when burned, producing no greenhouse gases. However, hydrogen also presents several hazards and there are safety factors to consider when planning its storage and use.

Golden thread: BSA requirements create additional cyber exposure

The Building Safety Act 2022 and the associated Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 introduced significant information retention requirements through their ‘golden thread’ provisions. These apply to buildings defined as ‘higher risk’ in the legislation. The golden thread comprises information to create a proper understanding of a building and consequently the steps needed to keep both the building and people safe. It is envisioned as a building’s ‘single source of truth’, and to avoid obsolescence and omission errors, it is not intended to be held across multiple sources or even duplicated (save back up). The legislation stipulates that the golden thread information must be held digitally, and to protect both personal information and the security of the building, it must be held securely.The Building Safety Act 2022 and the associated Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 introduced significant information retention requirements through their ‘golden thread’ provisions. These apply to buildings defined as ‘higher risk’ in the legislation. The golden thread comprises information to create a proper understanding of a building and consequently the steps needed to keep both the building and people safe. It is envisioned as a building’s ‘single source of truth’, and to avoid obsolescence and omission errors, it is not intended to be held across multiple sources or even duplicated (save back up). The legislation stipulates that the golden thread information must be held digitally, and to protect both personal information and the security of the building, it must be held securely.
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