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Simon Hughes
Lead Liability Surveyor
As Lead Liability Surveyor, Simon drives strategic growth and high-level client management. He provides consultancy-led advice for brokers and Lloyd’s syndicates, leveraging deep expertise in complex casualty risks—including motorsport and professional sports - to deliver tailored risk management across diverse global markets.

Expert Liability Risk Profiling & Advice

Commercial liability is evolving rapidly. Social inflation, emerging risks, and increasingly complex supply chains are creating pressure on casualty portfolios that conventional underwriting tools weren’t designed for.

Our Liability & Casualty practice brings specialist knowledge to bear on the risks that matter — helping insurers, underwriters, and brokers understand their exposure before it crystallises into a claim.

Our team collaborates closely with liability underwriters to provide pre-underwriting risk insights, policy reviews, and claims support — spanning areas such as employer’s liability, public liability, and product liability.

We believe that better liability underwriting starts with better risk understanding — not just at inception, but throughout the policy lifecycle.

🏗 Employer’s & Public Liability

Workplace hazard evaluations, public interaction risk analysis, and compliance reviews, helping to support accurate EL/PL underwriting decisions.

📦 Product Liability

Supply chain risk analysis, product recall exposure, and compliance with public liability frameworks — roduct safety regulations across manufacturing and distribution.

🚧 Contractors & Operations

Risk profiling for construction, contracting, and operational businesses — including method statement review and site hazard assessment.

🌎 Environmental Liability

Evaluation of environmental and pollution risks within public liability frameworks — critical for industrial, waste, and energy sector clients.

📊 Portfolio Analytics

Casualty portfolio review and benchmarking — identifying systemic risk concentrations and improvement opportunities across books of business.

Liability Insights

Our perspective on
the liability landscape

📌 Key Theme

Social Inflation & Claims Severity

The steady increase in claims severity driven by evolving litigation strategies, third-party litigation funding, and increased plaintiff advocacy is reshaping casualty portfolios. Understanding the underlying risk at inception is more important than ever.

📌 Key Theme

Supply Chain & Product Risk

Globalised supply chains have created product liability exposures that are difficult to trace and harder to price. We provide insurers with an overview of supply chain risks, highlighing key exposures to ensure policy terms are aligned.

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