Ireland

Ireland

Our team in Ireland combines legal and regulatory expertise with practical business advice and provide specialist legal services spanning (re)insurance, healthcare and commercial dispute sectors.

  • 7 partners
  • 30+ people
  • 2011 year established

Our Dublin office has one of the largest dedicated insurance practices in Ireland, and provides expert coverage and claims defence services to both international and domestic insurers and their insureds.

In particular, we advise on professional liability, financial institutions’ liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, public and employers’ liability, transactional liability and trade credit claims. We also specialise in advising on property damage and environmental liability claims.

We are leading experts in the marine, aviation and transport sectors, advising on all aspects of transport-related claims.

Our healthcare team advises hospitals, their insurers and healthcare professionals on contentious and non-contentious healthcare legal issues, including medical malpractice litigation, inquests, health law advice and regulatory matters.

Our liability team provides strategic advice on underwriting, coverage, and management of claims through the litigation process with particular expertise in travel, fraud, product liability, catastrophic injury, and property subrogation.

Our dispute resolution team provides expert legal advice on a broad range of commercial disputes, including corporate. Our healthcare team advises hospitals, their insurers and healthcare professionals on contentious and non-contentious healthcare legal issues, including medical and contractual disputes, professional negligence, property disputes, fraud, defamation and public procurement.

Kennedys’ global knowledge of the insurance sector and depth of expertise across multiple claims specialisms in both Ireland and the UK means that Kennedys’ Dublin office is also ideally placed to advise and help navigate our clients, both national and international, through the uncertainties of the UK's secession from the European Union. Our Dublin office will continue to be a key link for our clients seeking representation in the broader EU market.

Kennedys is a global titan in insurance, and the Dublin office represents a range of the biggest insurers and reinsurers in the world.

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Our office in Ireland

Second Floor Bloodstone Building Sir John Rogerson’s Quay Dublin 2, D02 KF24 DX128 Dublin T +353 1 878 0055 F +353 1 878 0056

Dublin

Bloodstone Building Sir John Rogerson's Quay Dublin D02 KF24 Ireland

+353 1 878 0055