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Top ranked CMS Insurance specialists offer expert advice on highly complex matters in a straightforward and commercially minded manner


(Re)insurers, brokers and insureds operate in a highly regulated and complex environment.

Our insurance sector lawyers across the world work with some of the market’s largest insurance businesses, offering exceptional depth and breadth of expertise to deliver comprehensive solutions to the sector:

Claims & Coverage

CMS’ market-leading policy wording and claims practitioners are at the apex of current legal thinking, helping (re)insurers, brokers and risk managers to solve disputes and manage exposure across more than 30 lines of business.

Corporate & Regulatory

Our Corporate Insurance team advises on all aspects of insurance-related transactions and works closely with our financial services, regulatory, claims, competition, employment, pensions, tax, dispute resolution departments and other specialists to deliver a seamless end-to-end service for our clients. Our regulatory specialists advise on UK and EU compliance, handle new products and distribution, and deal with a wide range of agreements. We help insurers deal with the PRA and the FCA and handle supervisory and enforcement issues as diverse as capital adequacy, financial crime and distribution channels. We advise clients across more than 30 lines of business.

Claims & Coverage lines of businessCorporate & Regulatory lines of business
  • Accident & Health
  • Accountants
  • Actuaries
  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Banks & Financial Institutions
  • Casualty
  • Class Actions/Collective Proceedings
  • Construction CAR/EAR
  • Construction Professionals 
  • Contingency 
  • Cyber 
  • Directors’ and Officers’ Liability 
  • Education
  • Energy & Power
  • Financial Advisors
  • Healthcare, Medical Negligence and Life Sciences
  • Insurance Intermediaries
  • Lawyers
  • Marine
  • Pension Professionals
  • Personal Injury
  • Policy Wordings and Contract Documentation
  • Political Risk and Trade Credit
  • Property
  • Reinsurance
  • Sanctions
  • Specie, Fine Art & Jewellers’ Block
  • Surveyors
  • Technology
  • Title Indemnity
  • Transaction/Warranty & Indemnity Liability
  • Travel
  • Alternative Risk Transfer / ART
  • Banking
  • Collateral, Credit Support and Credit Risk Mitigation
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Competition
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Debt Capital Markets
  • De-Risking
  • Employment
  • Equity Capital Market
  • InsurTech
  • Intellectual Property (IP)
  • Investments
  • Joint Ventures
  • Investments, Strategic Alliances, and Partnerships
  • Longevity Transactions and Pension De-Risking
  • M&A
  • Outsourcing
  • Portfolio Transfers
  • Private Equity
  • Procurement
  • Product Development
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory
  • Reinsurance
  • Restructuring
  • Tax
  • Technology
  • Treasury

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Pol­ish FSA is­sues state­ment on im­prop­er prac­tices in in­sur­ance dis­tri­bu­tion
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Pro­pos­al forms – risk of waiver of ma­ter­i­al in­form­a­tion
The High Court has set out the prin­ciples that ap­ply to the con­struc­tion of ques­tions in an in­surer’s auto­mated on­line un­der­writ­ing sys­tem and the cir­cum­stances in which an in­surer’s ques­tions may...
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Bel­gi­um in­tro­duces new in­sur­ance in­dustry cli­ent money and risk trans­fer...
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On 17 June 2021 the re­port “Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence gov­ernance prin­ciples: To­wards eth­ic­al and trust­worthy ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in the European in­sur­ance sec­tor” (the “Re­port”), draf­ted by...
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Tur­key pub­lishes Reg­u­la­tion on Iden­tity Au­then­tic­a­tion in Elec­tron­ic Com­mu­nic­a­tions...
The In­form­a­tion and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Tech­no­lo­gies Au­thor­ity (ICTA) re­cently pub­lished the Reg­u­la­tion on the Au­then­tic­a­tion of the Iden­tity of the Ap­plic­ant in the Elec­tron­ic Com­mu­nic­a­tions Sec­tor (“Reg­u­la­tion”)...
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