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Ben Brown

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Ben Brown is a senior associate in the Insurance & Reinsurance Group. Ben has experience in a range of insurance market disputes, focusing on Financial Lines (W&I, D&O), Brokers E&O, Healthcare and Cyber claims.

Ben acted for Insurers as monitoring defence counsel in respect of claims made in the BVI against insured directors of a Kazakhstan based real estate company.

Ben regularly advises on cyber breach incidents, including providing first response advice to Insureds, assisting with making notifications to regulators (ICO, FCA and PRA) and preparing communications to the victims of cyber-attacks. 

Ben has assisted with two ‘Cyber Incident Workshops’. Tailored to individual Insureds, the workshops are aimed at making them aware of cyber risks and (through scenario planning and testing) establishing best practice policies within the workplace.

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Education

  • 2012 – M.A. (Mediation and Conflict Resolution), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
  • 2011 – LL.B., Queens University, Belfast
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18/10/2021
Cyber and Professions Series – Medical Professionals
This is CMS’ second in a series of articles focusing on risks to professionals arising out of a cyber incident. To read our first article on risks to solicitors please click here. The healthcare sector...
20/07/2021
Claims against Directors arising from Insolvency
We are pleased to invite you to a series of seminars for 2021/22 delivered by the CMS Financial Lines Insurance Team. A key theme observed by our team over recent years is the growing complexity of Financial...
21/12/2020
Aggregation in the context of medical negligence considered by the Commercial...
The Commercial Court has considered whether claims against a private hospital arising out of the medical malpractice of a consultant breast surgeon could be aggregated as two separate sources or original...
26/11/2020
Negligence claim against NHS Trust barred by illegality defence
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has held that the illegality defence barred a claimant convicted of manslaughter from claiming damages for losses she suffered as a result of an earlier criminal...
02/09/2020
Group Litigation Orders and the pitfalls of making applications prematurely
A recent County Court decision to dismiss an application for a Group Litigation Order (GLO) made on behalf of 26 dental patients provides further guidance as to when the court will permit this form of...
27/04/2020
COVID-19 Insurance Implications
The COVID-19 pandemic has extracted a terrible toll on human life and has caused sig­ni­fic­ant disruption to business and investment worldwide. The true economic impact of the pandemic remains to be determined...
09/04/2020
Supreme Court rules that costs of commercial surrogacy can be recoverable
Last week the Supreme Court made the landmark decision that awards for damages to cover the costs of foreign commercial surrogacy, using donor eggs, can now be recoverable under certain circumstances...
08/04/2020
Supreme Court finds employers less likely to be vicariously liable for...
In reversing the Court of Appeal’s decision, the Supreme Court in Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants has reinforced the ability of companies to use the “independent contractor defence” when faced...
13/02/2020
Clinical negligence: court finds no duty of care owed to third party and...
In Bot v Barnick, separate claims by Ms Bot and her partner Mr Whitehead against two medical professionals were subject to successful strike out applications. The decision to strike out each of the claims...
06/12/2019
Medical negligence and proximity
A claim by daughters who witnessed their father, Mr. Paul’s, death as a result of a heart attack seeking damages for psychiatric injury, has been struck out. It was held that there was a lack of proximity...
19/11/2019
Webinar: The life-cycle of a cyber breach
Cyber insurance is the fastest growing line of insurance and cyber-attacks are an issue that could affect any insured in any class of business. Drawing on our experience of working on UK and international...
08/11/2019
Supreme Court clarifies the position on non-party costs orders in favour...
In a decision arising out of claims relating to defective silicone breast implants, the Supreme Court has provided guidance on insurers’ potential liability for third-party costs orders. Background...