Richard Harrison

Richard has over two decades of experience advising on and arbitrating/litigating high-profile disputes in the insurance and reinsurance fields, including Bermuda Form arbitrations. He also acts as an arbitrator. Notable reported cases include Tesco Stores v D.A.Constable and Rathbone Brothers v Novae in the Court of Appeal and EL Trigger in the Supreme Court. He returned to the Supreme Court in Phoenix Engineering v UK Insurance [2019] UKSC 16 and in 2020 acted for the Financial Conduct Authority in the Covid-19 test claim brought against 8 leading insurers. Many other high profile cases are the subject of confidential arbitration, but include claims by numerous FTSE 100 companies, international airlines and global engineering companies and major loss events including the 9/11 Attacks, the Lehman Brothers Collapse, Californian Wildfires, Grenfell Tower, Not-Petya Global Cyber Attack, major Aircraft Grounding claims and the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Richard’s opinion with Colin Edelman KC, commissioned by Mactavish with the endorsement of Lloyd’s, the LMA, IUA, ABI, BIBA, LIIBA and AIRMIC, was deployed in the House of Lords debate on the Enterprise Act 2016. It formed the basis for amendment of late payment provisions of the Insurance Act 2015.