Insurance

Insurance law is constantly evolving, and changes in financial supervision law are made with great frequency and follow one after another at a steady rate. In addition, the duty of care owed by insurers and insurance brokers is constantly expanding, and this duty of care is being increasingly shaped by financial supervision law. Furthermore, social developments have brought about the need for new insurance products, such as data and cybercrime insurance and insurance for self-propelled cars. And insured persons are increasingly asking questions about the coverage provided by these new insurance products.

Advice

Our knowledge extends beyond regular insurance products, such as fire insurance, business loss insurance and liability insurance; we can also assist you with questions about latest developments, such as the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD), Solvency II and Warranty & Indemnity Insurance. Our advice integrates our knowledge in the fields of liability and financial supervision law, tax law, corporate law, litigation and arbitration law.

We can advise you in the following areas:

financial supervision; for example, in the area of market access and the ban on commission payments;
portfolio transfer; both insurers as intermediaries;
mergers and acquisitions, etc.

Litigation

Loyens & Loeff advises and litigates on a wide variety of insurance-related issues and has extensive experience in assisting all parties in the insurance process, including insurers, reinsurers, insurance brokers and commercial insureds. We monitor developments at European as well as national level.

We assist insurance companies, reinsurance companies, brokers and insured persons with complex litigation cases. We have years of national and international experience in litigation and arbitration on:

coverage disputes;
recourse;
liability; and
financial supervision law.

Merel van Asch

Senior associate Attorney at law

Merel van Asch, attorney at law, is a member of the Litigation & Risk Management Practice Group in our Rotterdam office. Merel focuses on liability and insurance law. She advises and litigates on insurance law, professional liability, tort law and product liability.

T: +31 10 224 61 60 M: +31 6 51 01 85 47 E: merel.van.asch@loyensloeff.com More about Merel

Kitty Lieverse

Partner Attorney at law

Kitty Lieverse, attorney at law, is the chair of the Banking & Finance practice group. She specializes in supervision of the financial markets and is professor financial supervision laws at the Radboud University of Nijmegen.

T: +31 20 578 57 55 M: +31 6 51 28 93 06 E: kitty.lieverse@loyensloeff.com More about Kitty

Rens Markus

Associate Attorney at law

Rens Markus, attorney at law, is a member of the Litigation & Risk Management practice group in our Rotterdam office. He specialises in and focuses on high-end commercial litigation and (international) arbitration (with an emphasis on insurance, liability and post-M&A disputes).

T: +31 10 224 64 50 M: +31 6 10 89 76 14 E: rens.markus@loyensloeff.com More about Rens

Femke Leopold

Senior associate Attorney at law

Femke Leopold, attorney at law, works in the Litigation & Risk Management practice group as practice manager.

T: +31 10 224 63 90 M: +31 619 62 26 96 E: femke.leopold@loyensloeff.com More about Femke