ALARM South East: Refresh and renew

Jonathan Cook

Browne Jacobson

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Emma Cotton

Insurance Claims Manager, London Borough of Sutton

Emma Cotton is the Insurance Claims Manager for the London Borough of Sutton and has worked for the local authority since 2005. She was involved in bringing claims in-house in April 2009 and since then has been involved in all stages of the claims management process from notification to final conclusion in a wide range of different cases and values. Emma is responsible for ensuring the quality and performance of the claims handling function for eleven councils, in addition to a portfolio of schools, academies, and wholly-owned local authority companies. 

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James Fawcett

Partner, Browne Jacobson

James is a Partner at Browne Jacobson and heads the National Technical Claims Team, which specialises in defendant insurance litigation. With expertise in complex personal injury, claims arising from equality and human rights legislation, housing litigation and environmental claims, his Team’s focus is public sector risk.

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Simon Johnson

Partner – Occupational Health and Casualty, DWF

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Alasdair MacDonald

Regional Underwriting Manager, Zurich Municipal

Alasdair MacDonald is the Property Underwriting Manager for Zurich Municipal. He joined Zurich Municipal in 2019 from AXA where he was Underwriting Manager for their London Real Estate team and then Regional Underwriting Manager for their South East region. Prior to that he held head office and front line senior underwriting roles with Zurich Commercial, Allianz and Aviva. His roles have exposed him to property portfolios of all sizes and the issues that impact them. 

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Amanda Munro

Senior Paralegal, DWF

Amanda acts for a broad range of clients, in both the public and private sector. She has a broad spread of work and handles claims involving sexual, physical or emotional abuse, sexual harassment, the Human Rights Act 1998, "failure to remove", employers' and public liability, and clinical negligence. She has experience of running compensation schemes as well as dealing with recovery actions.

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Julia Reffell

Managing Director - Public Sector Practice, Marsh

Julia Reffell is Managing Director, Public Sector Practice at Marsh. Julia leads a specialist team that delivers risk management and insurance solutions for public sector organisations and social housing providers.

Marsh offers a comprehensive range of risk management and insurance broking services, whilst working in close partnership with each client to deliver a programme tailored to individual needs.

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Caroline Sanders

Partner, DWF

Caroline is a Partner in the Major Injury and Casualty team of DWF, based in London. Caroline specialises in working with local authorities handling EL/PL claims involving complex injury, fatalities, stress at work, abuse/failure to remove and regularly acts on behalf of local authority clients in inquests.

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Kathy Slowther

Insurance Manager, Southend-on-Sea City Council

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