Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

Sam Tacey Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP Associate London Tel +44 (0) 20 7556 4528 Fax +44 (0) 20 7716 3701 Download VCard

Sam has experience in working on disputes in both the high court and in arbitration. He has also had involvement with contentious and non-contentious insurance insolvency work.

• Sam is currently acting for Munich Re, Swiss Re and Centre Re in relation to litigation arising out the reinsurance of T&N's historic asbestos liabilities.
  
  
• Sam represented a credit insurance company in a complex coverage dispute against its insured in the Commercial Court.
  
  
• Sam acted for a major captive insurance company in a dispute with its reinsurers concerning losses arising from Hurricane Katrina.
  
  
• Sam represented a Bermuda reinsurer in a coverage dispute with its reinsured relating to damage to an offshore oil rig in the North Sea.
  
  
• Sam acted for a Lloyd's syndicate in a Commercial Court dispute with its reinsured, relating to damage caused to certain Gulf of Mexico assets by Hurricane Rita in 2005.

• "Four Current Hot Cases," co-presenter, Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance & Reinsurance Seminar, March 2011.
  
  
• "Lehman Brothers:  Client Money Appeal," co-author, Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Review, September 2010.
  
  
• "Piracy does not Pay:  High Court Rules on the Interpretation of Actual and Constructive Total Loss," co-author, Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Review, June 2010.
  
  
• "Wave goodbye to inherent vice exclusions?," co-author, Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Review, March 2010.
  
  
• "Getting the Deal Through," Co-author, UK analysis chapter, Insurance and Reinsurance, 2009.
  
  
• "Disconnected Sprinkler Highlights the Argument for Reform of the Law on Breach of Warranty:  Qayyum Ansari v New India Assurance Ltd," Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Review, June 2009.
  
  
• "Coromin v Axa Re:extending BI cover?," Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Review, March 2008.
  
  
• "Arbitration: Court of Appeal considers an appeal by a party seeking to challenge an arbitration award on the grounds that there was unfairness under s33 Arbitration Act 1996," author, Insurance Round Up, October 2007.
  
  
• "Acquiescence: accepting a breach of contract," co-author, In House Lawyer, March 2006.

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Sam graduated from Bristol University in 2004 with an honours degree in law (LLB). He then gained a distinction in his LPC at BPP Law School in 2005.

Outside of the office, Sam enjoys playing and watching almost any sport, particularly football, rugby and cricket and is a keen member of the firm's football team.

Sam is also interested in photography and reading.