Profile: Andrew Bandurka

Insurance and Reinsurance

Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Andrew Bandurka specialises in insurance and reinsurance law and professional indemnity claims. Before entering private practice as a solicitor, he qualified as a barrister and worked within the insurance industry and within the aviation industry.

He acts for insureds, insurers, reinsurers and brokers in resolving disputes, domestic and international, and he advises on policy wordings, commercial agreements and related matters.

Andrew has acted in a number of high-profile matters involving most, if not all, of the major insurance and reinsurance issues over the last two decades, from asbestos and pollution claims, through Piper Alpha, the Lloyd's litigation, the Hatfield rail crash, film finance, the LMX spiral, Exxon Valdez, the Kuwait invasion, worker's compensation carve-out claims, Enron, Worldcom, laddering, the World Trade Center, Katrina, and pensions and endowments misselling. He has particular experience of reinsurance pools and fronting arrangements, and of the aggregation of insurance and reinsurance claims in a variety of settings including fraud, war, and financial institutions' professional indemnity insurance.

Many of Andrew's cases are resolved through arbitration and mediation, and are confidential. One well-known arbitration in which Andrew was involved was the Andina Coffee arbitration, which concerned the aggregation of fraud claims.

Other reported cases include MA Scott v Copenhagen Re (2002) EWHC 1348 (Comm) and (2003) EWCA Civ 688 CA; D G King & Others v Brandywine (2004) EWHC 1033 (Comm) and LRIR (2005) EWCA Civ 235; Württembergische v Home Insurance Co (1999) 1 All ER (Comm) 535, (1999) Lloyd's Rep ER 397; R v Regulatory Body of Lloyd's of London ex parte Macmillan and another (1995) LRLR 485; and New Cap Reinsurance Corp Limited v HIH Casualty & General Insurance Ltd (2002) EXCA Civ 300, 2002 2 BCLC 228.