Property Damage and Recovery

Hanna is a partner in BLM's Property Damage team and specialises in all aspects of property damage claims including policy coverage disputes, subrogated recoveries and third party liability.  She regularly deals with complex and high value claims involving a range of perils with a particular emphasis on fires, floods, explosions, landslips, escapes of water and mechanical and electrical defects.

Hanna also advises insurers on policy coverage issues relating to both commercial and domestic policies and including matters such as breach of the duty of fair presentation under the Insurance Act 2015, policy conditions and exclusions, contribution clauses, waiver and affirmation and the basis of settlement provisions.

Cases have included a number of high value fire claims involving issues of workmanship relating to servicing and maintenance, a third party liability claim arising out of damage caused by a chemical explosion, escape of water claims relating to mechanical and engineering defects and a multi-million pound policy coverage dispute involving non-disclosures of material facts and breach of the duty of fair presentation under the Insurance Act 2015.

Bournemouth University (1st LLB Law 2004)

College of Law, Guildford (LPC Distinction 2008)