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Rosalind Jones

After studying law at the University of Birmingham, Rosalind was articled and spent two years post qualification as a solicitor at Le Brasseur and Bury, where she handled the defence to professional indemnity claims against the medical and dental professions.

Rosalind moved to Elborne Mitchell in 1991 and was made a partner in 1996. She specialises in insurance and reinsurance litigation, bringing impressive technical expertise, determination and stamina to the Elborne Mitchell team.

Rosalind has handled a number of landmark cases during her career at Elborne Mitchell. Among these are the defence of Lloyd's Members Agents involved in the Feltrim Names' action, a multi-party negligence claim and one of the largest cases in civil legal history and the successful conduct of a series of arbitrations arising from the infamous PA LMX spiral in which she acted for North American reinsurers.

Rosalind has acted in a wide variety of disputes, in court and in arbitration proceedings, on behalf of brokers, Lloyd's Syndicates, and insurers and reinsurers in both the London and the North American market. Recent cases have involved misrepresentation and non disclosure issues concerning excess of loss, stop loss, risk excess and surplus reinsurance contracts, aviation carve out coverages, illegality and policy wording disputes.

Rosalind takes an active role in the affairs of the Chartered Insurance Institute and Insurance Institute of London. She assists the Chartered Insurance Institute in providing legal input for the CII examination syllabus, including the "Legal Aspects of Insurance" paper which is sponsored by Elborne Mitchell.

She is married with two children and lives in London.

E-mail: jones@elbornes.com

Articles by Rosalind Jones

Credit crunch losses and Lloyd’s: what goes around, comes around
Court rooms on both sides of the Atlantic will sooner or later have to address the question of who is responsible for the losses on Wall Street and in the City. Rosalind Jones of Elborne Mitchell considers the implications for insurers and the lessons that can be learnt from the crisis at Lloyd’s in the 1990s. First published: Insurance Day [4th September 2009]

Making sense of Kidsons: - the problem with notification
Rosalind Jones considers whether the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in the important case of HLB Kidsons v Lloyd’s Underwriters provides the insurance market with any useful guidance on the law applicable to notifications of claims First published: Elborne Mitchell Website [13th January 2009]

Reinsurance Spirals
Article explaining how the personal accident and LMX spirals happened and whether there is a legitimate place for spiral business. First published: Global Reinsurance [1st September 2000]