Tara Cosgrove#9797

Tara Cosgrove

Partner, Beale & Co
Tara has been a partner with Beale & Co in both London and Dublin and now leads the Dublin office. She has substantial experience in a range of contentious and non-contentious Professional Indemnity, Construction and Insurance matters.

She has been involved in a diverse range of professional negligence claims, commercial disputes, claims under directors and officers policies, product liability claims and employment disputes and has experience in large scale high quantum cases involving litigation, mediation and arbitration.

Tara acts for professionals and their professional indemnity insurers in a wide range of claims including claims against solicitors, architects, valuers, financial advisors, insurance brokers, engineers and surveyors. She has close links with professionals and their representative bodies and is often instructed on uninsured and non-contentious matters. She also advises on risk management and claims avoidance.

Tara is also frequently instructed to provide coverage advice to both Irish and International insurers and advises on insurance disputes.

She has worked both in private practice and in-house with two of Ireland and the UK’s leading insurers. This has provided her with invaluable experience of the insurance industry, the important issues for the industry, risk management and assessment and the very real commercial issues associated with claims handling.

Tara has substantial experience in multi party claims, claims handling and case managed litigation and has had many cases reported at all levels up to and including the Supreme Court.
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Differences between Irish insurance and UK insurance law
Differences between Irish insurance and UK insurance law
Practice Notes

This Practice Note examines the key differences between Irish and UK insurance law and covers the Consumer Insurance Contract Act 2019, consumer and non-consumer contracts in Ireland, the difference between the Irish rules regarding fair presentation, the duty of disclosure and utmost good faith and the UK Insurance Act 2015 and the UK Marine Insurance Act 1906. It also considers the Irish Civil Liability Act 1961 and the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010; arbitration clauses and the role of the Central Bank of Ireland and the role of the Financial Conduct Authority.

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