- Notable practitioner for 'Insurance: Contentious Claims & Reinsurance (UK-wide)'
"Ingrid has a good manner with clients that is calm and authoritative."
"She is great on strategy."
Chambers UK 2022 - Notable practitioner for 'Product Liability: Mainly Defendant (UK-wide)'
Chambers UK 2022 - Recommended lawyer for ‘Insurance and reinsurance litigation (London)’
The Legal 500 UK 2022 - Recommended lawyer for ‘Product liability: defendant (London)’
The Legal 500 UK 2022 - Recommended lawyer for 'Product liability: defendant (London)'
The Legal 500 UK 2021 - “Ingrid is very flexible to our specific requirements. She has delivered a very high level of service.”
The Gracechurch London Market Insurance Law Report 2019 - Notable practitioner for 'Product Liability: Mainly Defendant (UK-wide)'
"The "exceptional" Ingrid Hobbs has cultivated a strong reputation among insurer clients for her expertise in product liability matters."
Chambers UK 2020 - Notable practitioner for 'Product Liability: Mainly Defendant (UK-wide)'
Chambers UK 2019 - Recommended Lawyer for 'Professional negligence (London)'
"…the ‘excellent’ Ingrid Hobbs."
The Legal 500 UK 2018/19
Ingrid is head of our Complex Casualty Coverage Team and sits on the firm's Strategy Board. She is based in our London office. Ingrid is an insurance and reinsurance specialist whose significant experience covers policy coverage disputes across many classes of business. Ingrid advises regularly on product liability and recall insurance, crisis covers including political and financial risk policies, cyber risks, professional indemnity, financial institutions, directors’ and officers’ liability and Bermuda Form wordings.
Acting for many of the world’s largest (re)insurers, Ingrid has dealt with litigation, arbitration and mediation of significant and high profile matters across a broad range of jurisdictions that cover the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and South Africa.
Ingrid has a comprehensive professional indemnity practice and has advised on off shore trust claims, claims against technology companies, publishing houses, off shore law firms and motor racing claims. Used to working on multi-jurisdictional claims, Ingrid has considerable experience in liaising with foreign lawyers, brokers, experts and (re)insurers.
Ingrid is Past President Elect of London FOIL, a division of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers that supports the insurance and reinsurance law firms and lawyers working in the London and Lloyd’s market.
Ingrid is a co-author of Kennedys’ Claims Handling Law and Practice Guide, the fourth edition of which was published in February 2021.
Ingrid contributed to the writing of Kennedys' ‘Rewriting the risk: Addressing the challenge of climate change’ report, which was published in July 2022.
Qualifications
- Qualified in England and Wales in 1994
