Stephen Netherway

Partner

Areas of Expertise

Stephen has considerable and wide-ranging experience in insurance  and reinsurance policy coverage issues and insurance and reinsurance related business disputes, including disputes involving insurers, reinsurers and brokers/intermediaries. Stephen’s wider dispute experience also includes extensive experience of multi-party, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional issues. Stephen has considerable experience in both the major trial and appellate UK Law Courts, as well as before international and domestic arbitration panels. His insurance and reinsurance focussed experience includes:

• Business critical disputes and claims, including market disputes
• Policy coverage
• A specific focus on insurance broker and other intermediary liability, including fee and commission disputes
• Treaty and Facultative reinsurance
• Professional negligence
• Directors & Officers and Crime/ Fidelity
• Property
• Business Interruption (including Covid) claims
• PA, Travel and other personal lines classes
• Life and Critical Illness, Healthcare/medical related disputes and personal injury
• Public liability
• Product liability
• Surety and bonding, trade credit
• Other classes, including employers liability, cyber,  judicial review, title insurance.
• Third Party Funding and ATE/CFA issues
• Financial Ombudsman/Pensions Ombudsman claims

Experience

Prior to joining Devonshires in 2019, Stephen was a senior Insurance partner in CMS UK being appointed partner in 2001. Stephen was also Head of CMS UK’s Insurance sector at CMS UK.

Publications

• Lead Author of Limited Liability for Professional Partnerships (Jordans)
• Past contributing Editor to Practitioners Book Insurance Broking Practice and the Law (Informa)
• The problem of Covid-19 disputes remaining behind closed doors (Insurance Day)
• When does an insurance contract come into effect? (Insurance Day)
• Major reinsurance disputes are on the rise post Covid (Insurance Day)
• Charities Bill Update: Land Transactions
• Legal Focus: Courts increase pressure to settle disputes quickly (Insurance Day)
• Legal Focus: Brexit will make legal redress more difficult (Insurance Day)
• Legal Focus: Pandemic brings Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act to the fore (Insurance Day)
• Legal Focus: Policyholders benefiting from legal ‘levelling up’ (Insurance Day)
• What is fair presentation for insurers and their insureds? (Insurance Day)
• Taking a simple approach to the question of indemnity (Insurance Day)

Directories

“Excellent”, “cool under fire”, noted for ability to “see through the complexities of the matter to the core point”– Chambers Legal Directory 2019

Stephen has also been recognised in Legal Business/Legal 500’s Directory of Legal Experts (professional negligence), Euromoney’s World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance lawyers, Who’s Who Legal, as well as in Chambers Directory for insurance and reinsurance claims.

Stephen was recognised in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers UK and the current digest of Who’s Who Legal.

Education

Stephen graduated from the University of Nottingham with a degree in Law (LL.B) 2:1

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