Riisa & Co Advokatfirmaet ANS

Insurance. Dispute resolution.

Partner.

Bergset has 30 years’ experience in insurance and tort law and has throughout his career established a comprehensive competence with most areas of this field, hereunder general insurance, property, liability, personal injurie and life insurance. With more than two hundred proceedings before the courts, Bergset has extensive trial experience also from the Supreme Court and with arbitration.

Bergset has long experience as counsel for the state, municipalities, most of Norway’s insurance companies, banks, malpractice from professionals such as lawyers, architects, engineers, brokers, board members and contractors and also practice as counsel for international insurance and reinsurance companies. He has handled many significant and comprehensive disputes.

Bergset has written insurance terms and conditions for insurance companies and revised the textbook on liability insurance. Bergset has been a partner in RIISA since 2001 and has been admitted to the Supreme Court since 2007.

Svein Bergset has extensive procedural assignments for the courts in insurance, tort law, contract law and social security law. During 2022 and 2023 Svein Bergset has been involved in 5 civil cases for the Supreme Court, he has litigated three court cases and has twice assisted a lawyer from National Office for Health Service Appeals who had a test case before the Supreme Court.

2001-

Partner, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

1998-2000

Lawyer, Codex Advokat

1994-1997

Lawyer, Vesta Forsikring

1992-1993

Deputy Judge, Sunnfjord District Court

Acting Magistrate, Sunnfjord District Court

1991

Executive Officer, Ministry of Labour

Norwegian. English.

Norwegian Bar Association

The Norwegian Bar Association’s legislative committee in insurance law

Board member, Insurance Law Association West

Board member, Bergen og Hordaland turlag

1990     University of Bergen, Cand.jur