UK
Practice Areas
Ed Foss is a partner in the Insurance and Reinsurance Group at CMS. Ed has over 20 years’ experience advising insurers and insurance brokers on liability issues as well as acting for other professionals and their insurers, in particular solicitors firms. Before joining CMS as a partner in 2008, Ed spent 7 years as the Group Legal Adviser to a major international insurance broker. Prior to that he trained and became a partner at another recognised insurance firm. Ed blends his legal experience with a practical and first-hand knowledge of the insurance market.
Ed is particularly well known for his work on liability issues for insurance brokers and solicitors firms and their insurers. Ed acts for many of the major international insurance brokers and large law firms offers a unique legal and practical insight into the exposures these clients face and how best to mitigate them. Ed also acts on behalf of other professionals and Directors & Officers (both defence and coverage) as well as advising on reinsurance issues.
Ed is recommended in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and was a committee member of the British Insurance Law Association for many years.
Professional Memberships
Member, British Insurance Law Association
Former Committee Member, British Insurance Law Association
Publications
Countdown to Insurance Reform – Insurance Day 22.7.15
A New Regime for Insurance Contract Law – Kluwer review of banking, financial and insurance law (Luxembourg) – to be published at end of the year
Insurance Act Receives Royal Assent – Reactions 18.2.15 – article by Ed and Simon Garrett
What are the Practical Considerations of the Insurance Act 2015 – Strategic Risk 9.3.15 – article by Ed and Simon Garrett
