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Monica Lesny is a partner in the Insurance Group.  She handles a variety of professional negligence claims and has acted on a number of high value Contractors All Risk disputes.

Following an extended secondment at QBE, her primary focus is on construction professional indemnity insurance and she is currently defending claims involving a range of professionals including architects, engineers, construction/project managers and surveyors. She has particular experience in M&E and infrastructure claims and in addition to matters in the UK, is currently handling claims in Italy, Hungary, Poland and France on behalf of London Market insurers.

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    Monica “knows how to assess strengths and weaknesses in arguments”
    Legal 500
  • Quote
    “Super Lawyers”: Rising Star 2013-2015
    Tomson Reuters

Relevant experience

  • Engineers: in relation to a mineral extraction plant in Chile.
  • Architects: high court dispute on the Northern Triangle, Emirates Development.
  • Insurers: in connection with a number of arbitrations brought against architects in the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar).
  • Insurers: on a number of high profile multi million fire related claims (against D&B contractors, architects etc).
  • Engineers: claim in relation to a large biomass plant in Belgium.
  • Insurers: claims arising from the design and construction of waste recycling facilities in Greater Manchester.
  • Insurers: on claims and coverage arising from infrastructure projects, and building collapses in Southern and Eastern Europe (including Hungary, Latvia, Portugal and Poland as well as the UK).
  • Administrator/Insolvency Practitioner: claims arising from the insolvency of Sixty UK.
  • Insurers: on coverage claims arising from provision of a new accommodation module to a mobile drilling platform.
  • Farraj and another v King’s Healthcare NHS Trust and another (Court of Appeal) [2009] EWCA Civ 1203.

Education

  • LLB - Manchester University 
  • LPC - Nottingham Law School

Insights by Monica

Building Safety Act Annual Review 2026

Building Safety Act Annual Review 2026

17 Mar 2026 3 min read
Building Safety Act Annual Review 2025

Building Safety Act Annual Review 2025

19 Mar 2025 1 min read
Reflections on the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010, 8 years later

Reflections on the Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010, 8 years later

19 Feb 2025 17 min read
Settlement by Insured with third party without Insurers’ prior consent in breach of policy conditions

Settlement by Insured with third party without Insurers’ prior consent in breach of policy conditions

29 Jun 2022 8 min read
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