Doré Green

Call: 1994

Expertise

Insurance
Insurance & Reinsurance
Product Liability
Professional Negligence
Property Damage

Practice Profile

Doré specialises in insurance, professional indemnity and product liability work. 

He has considerable expertise in claims raising complex technical issues, in particular claims relating to fires, floods, subsidence and landslip and other nuisance and statutory based forms of liability and raising complex design, engineering and geotechnical issues.  In all these areas he has acted both for insurers in subrogated recovery claims and for indemnity insurers, in particular constructional professionals. He regularly appears in the TCC.

In insurance and re-insurance work he has considerable experience in coverage disputes, in particular policy wording and policy construction, breach of warranties, scope of cover and claims raising contentious technical issues on the proximate cause of loss. He routinely acts in litigation arising from policy avoidance for non-disclosure, and fraud, both fraudulent claims and fraudulent exaggeration, in particular in the context of fire claims. He has acted for most leading insurers in all these areas. He has also acted in claims inter-insurers arising from double insurance.   

Dore’s product liability practice is largely insurance driven. He has acted for insurers in a very broad range of product liability claims, extending to agricultural products and energy. He has particular expertise in contentious litigation in this area  in advising on contractual limits on liability, and on jurisdiction and choice of law. He has also acted for insurers in claims relating to personal injury arising from commercial products.

In professional indemnity the principal focus of his practice has been in claims for and against construction professionals, in particular engineers and design professionals; and for and against valuers in claims relating to defective buildings both commercial and domestic. 

He has also acted in claims against brokers including Lloyd’s brokers, in particular relating to coverage and notification, and for insurers in claims against loss adjusters.    

He is widely regarded for his thoroughness and attention to detail, as well as sound commercial judgment.

Notable Cases

Associated Yarns v. Delta Laminates (instructed by Berrymans) vicarious liability for criminal act causing fire;

Hiscox Insurance v. Haringey (instructed by Plexus) limitation in claims relating to loss of support;

Wynnstay v. Heygate (instructed by Plexus) product liability in animal feed stuffs;

Armstrong v. EDF Energy (instructed by Greenwoods) liability of energy supplier and related policy and coverage issues;

Davidson v. NEDL (instructed by Eversheds) proper approach to causation in fire claims;

Chand v. Hiscox Insurance (instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain) limits on extent of insurers’ liability under first party policy in respect of fire;

Ali and others v. Oakfield Developments (Yorkshire) Limited (instructed by Halliwells) acting for claimants in multi-party claim involving catastrophic slope failure during development works; Crossley and others v. Roch Valley Developments (instructed by Plexus) acting for defendants in multi-party claim involving catastrophic slope failure during development works;

Gemini Riteway v. Lonsdale and others (instructed by Lamport Bassitt) broker’s negligence and policy coverage issues in primary and excess layer insurance.

Additional Information

Affiliations

• Member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Member of the Common Law and Commercial Bar Association