Insurance

Simpson Grierson provides specialist insurance advice on all aspects of insurance law to a range of insurers, reinsurers, brokers, corporations, and other clients.

Our experience and expertise covers all sectors of the life, general, and reinsurance industry, including material damage, public liability, product liability, professional indemnity, directors and officers, health, disability, income protection, and marine insurance.

Our work with our clients covers a wide range of matters, including product design and general advice on policy documentation, statutory and regulatory requirements, distribution arrangements, captive insurance arrangements, policy coverage, compliance programmes, project insurance, taxation issues, and dispute resolution.

We regularly work alongside other specialists in our banking and finance and corporate and commercial departments to provide advice on insurance issues arising on mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, insolvency, restructuring, and portfolio transfers.

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Our Experience

Assisting a number of overseas insurers on compliance with New Zealand statutory and regulatory requirements
Advice to an international corporation on a claim that it is carrying out insurance business in New Zealand
RealCover Insurance - on compliance issues and the transfer of its insurance business to Australia
Advice to a major bank on the insurance arrangements for the transfer of its cash
Transpower - insurance and indemnity arrangements relating to Meridian Energy's Project West wind farm
Advice on the establishment and winding up of a number of life and general insurance companies in New Zealand
Advice on the appropriate tax treatment of certain insurance arrangements
Advice to a number of local authorities and other parties on policy coverage issues relating to leaky building claims
Advice on policy coverage under a construction works policy
Acquisition of and proposed acquisition of a number of New Zealand insurers and insurance books
Advice to an overseas insurer on conflict of laws protests in cross border "direct recourse" claims
Advice to an insurer on multiple product liability claims in the horticulture industry