Hannah Burgess

Hannah is a senior associate based in the professional indemnity team in Manchester.

Hannah works across the insurance division doing a mixture of defence and coverage work across financial lines. Hannah has experience in defending a wide range of professional negligence claims against solicitors, trustees, construction professionals, accountants and brokers. Hannah also works on education and D&O claims and advises on complex coverage issues and policy disputes.

Hannah has defended multiple high-value claims, including those arising from various property development schemes and litigation against an insolvency practitioner linked to multiple different sets of proceedings in the High Court, Court of Appeal and now Supreme Court. Hannah also advises on areas of complex areas of policy coverage including in relation to worldwide allegations of bribery and corruption against directors of a FTSE 100 company and in respect of a criminal and civil claim for embezzlement of funds against a professional in the Belgian Court of Appeal.

Hannah spent eight months on a client secondment in Manchester and has also undertaken a five month secondment for a MGA based client in London.