Industrial risk

Practice areas and sectors / Industrial risk

For the last two decades H&A has successfully assisted and advised leading insurance companies in the management of their industrial claims. H&A's lawyers have acquired a good reputation in the management of medium and large scale industrial losses, thanks to their ability to quickly mobilise experienced experts, to work with risk managers and claims managers from the insurance companies so as to ensure the effective, optimal treatment of cases at all stages, both in France and abroad.

H&A assists its clients in an emergency:

  • For all measures to preserve evidence, to mitigate the loss and to ensure an optimal management of a claim,
  • Immediately put into place judicial or amicable expertise,
  • Assert the rights its of clients through the expertise phase, assisted by the expert consultant designated by the client,
  • To ensure the best conditions for its clients defence before the court which has jurisdiction
  • To seek out alternative dispute resolution, to negotiate and compromise with the parties from the other side.

Some examples of assignments :

  • Petrochemical industry: destruction of infrastructure causing damages and business interruption losses.
  • Maritime sector: claim involving the means of propulsion for a cargo ship
  • Cosmetics: destruction of a cosmetic products’ storage and logistics centre