Catherine Shuttleworth

Catherine joined Kennedys in 2003 and has been a partner in the insurance division for 15 years. After working in London for nearly 20 years, she is now based in Leeds where she heads up its new professional liability practice in that location. She has over 30 years of experience in advising insurers and their insureds in professional negligence claims.

Catherine has extensive experience acting in a broad range of professional indemnity practice areas but principally solicitors, accountants, surveyors, insurance intermediaries and insolvency practitioners. She regularly advises insurers on coverage in respect of high quantum disputes, which has included acting for insurers in coverage disputes through mediation/arbitration in the non-UK jurisdictions of Italy and Malta

Catherine has acted for a number of high-profile firms of solicitors including those in the top rankings and firms which themselves conduct professional negligence claims.

Catherine is also a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers.

During her career Catherine has been involved in a number of reported cases including:

• Penn v Bristol & West Building Society [1997]
• Johnson v Bingley Dyson [1997]
• Buckenham v Dickinson [2000]
• Colton v Graysons [2003]
• T&N Ltd v Royal & Sun Alliance [2003]
• AXA Insurance (formerly Winterthur Swiss Insurance Co) v Akther & Darby Solicitors [2010]
• Moduroglu v Stephenson Harwood [2017]
• Various Claimants v Giambrone & AIG [2019]
• Kings v Steifel and others [2021]

Qualifications

• Qualified in England and Wales in 1993