Kennedys
Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. Throughout our growing network of offices we specialise in defending insurance and liability claims, and providing claims and coverage advice to a client base that includes domestic and international (re)insurers, Lloyd’s syndicates, central and local government bodies and large self-insured corporate organisations.
We handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors including insurance and reinsurance, aviation, banking and finance, construction and engineering, healthcare, life sciences, marine, public sector, rail, real estate, retail, shipping and international trade, sport and leisure, transport and logistics and travel and tourism.
Insurance, claims and coverage is deeply ingrained in every office globally. We provide advice across all lines of insurance and claims including:
• Aviation.
• Marine and energy.
• Property and casualty; including property damage, contractors all risk, employers’, public, product and medical malpractice.
• Motor liability.
• Financial lines; including directors' and officers' liability, financial institutions and professional indemnity.
• Speciality risks; including cyber, fine art and specie, political risks and life and health.
Our deep sector knowledge means that we understand the impact of proposed regulations and advise our clients on the implications this will have on their business.
Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Award winners revealed
Tara Foley, CEO of Axa UK & Ireland, has been named Diversity & Inclusion Leader of the Year at Insurance Post’s Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Awards 2025.
Motor finance firms off the hook in historic Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court has today (1 August) rejected two of the three arguments brought forward as part of the historic £44bn motor finance case.
Art of the M&A insurance deal
With mergers and acquisitions hitting delays, or even collapsing, due to cyber security vulnerabilities, Tim Evershed examines how M&A insurance works and digs deep into the risk management advice insurers are giving plus deal makers to prevent data loss.
Claims and Fraud Awards 2025 shortlist revealed
Insurance Post can reveal the businesses and individuals who have been shortlisted for the 2025 Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards.
Tackling the insurance challenges created by cosmetic tourism
As cosmetic tourism continues to grow in popularity among Brits enticed by the promise of cheap surgery, Tim Evershed examines the kind of claims travel and medical insurers are seeing.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Kennedys’ commute and ABI’s sandwiches
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
How AI is reshaping insurance in 2025
Rory Yates, global head of strategy at EIS, Kennedys IQ chief products officer Karim Derrick, Paul O’Brien, chief AI officer of Davies, Charles Clarke, group vice-president of Guidewire Analytics, and Hiscox chief technology officer Ian Wrigglesworth…
Court of Appeal overturns judgment in favour of insurer
The Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court judgment in favour of insurers, providing a clarification on the how the courts will interpret the Insurance Act (2015).
AI tops global risk index for insurance
The insurance sector is facing a seismic shift, as artificial intelligence emerges as the top-ranked risk for the year ahead, displacing all other major concerns.
When will insurance get more female leaders?
Analysis: Damisola Sulaiman highlights the barriers preventing women in insurance from attaining senior-level positions today, and questions whether the move away from diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives in the US could hamper efforts to gain…
Why PFAS is the greatest threat to insurance today
As “forever chemicals” become a growing focus of government regulation and a deluge of civil litigation, Emma Ann Hughes unpicks the potential impact of the manufacture and distribution of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances for the insurance industry.
HF’s investment; Ceta x MoneySuperMarket; Pen Underwriting’s COO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Greenwashing risks and the path to real progress
As the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, begins Damisola Sulaiman explores the unique greenwashing risks the insurance industry faces, how those risks can be mitigated and the challenges faced in proving sustainability…
Aviva’s Rokstone partnership; EXL’s language model; Aon’s broking promotion
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage
Laura Miller examines how the CrowdStrike outage impacted various insurances, including property, business interruption, professional liability, D&O and product liability insurances.
Dive In registration opens
Registration has opened today (15 August) for the 2024 Dive In Festival, which aims to promote diversity and inclusion in the insurance industry.
Why data-sharing is essential to fighting travel insurance fraud
Following Scott Clayton, head of claims fraud at Zurich, stating the industry needs to share travel insurance data and create a database to crack down on fraud, Tom Luckham examines what it will take to stop travel being an easy target for false claims.
What insurers should know about the FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule
Alexandra Nurse, a partner at Kennedys, explains how the Financial Conduct Authority’s new anti-greenwashing rule will, in the long term, mitigate the risk of claims brought in the insurance sector so long as providers review their communications.
Harnessing responsible AI in the insurance industry
Trade Voice: Ann Dingemans, lawyer at Kennedys and Fleur Rochester, Kennedys partner and president of the London Forum of Insurance Lawyers, look at how insurers can take advantage of artificial intelligence in the right way.
How generative AI is everything, everywhere in insurance all at once
How insurers have been able to swiftly pilot generative artificial intelligence, prove the value of embracing this technology and roll it out across the wider business is examined by Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes.
How insurers can up their claims game
Insurers love to talk about claims exaggeration, but David Worsfold asks: are they guilty of some exaggeration of their own?