Biography

Jolyon Patten is a partner in Sedgwick’s London office, with more than 25 years experience in the Lloyd’s and Companies Market. He focuses on insurance and reinsurance issues, in all classes of business, and represents an international client base in London, Europe and the United States. His experience includes property and casualty, marine and non-marine, facultative and treaty business, including whole account, Accident & Health (A&H) and workers compensation, re-/insurance brokers claims, products liability, energy, marine, financial reinsurance and Alternative Risk Transfer (ART). Mr Patten has particular expertise in and knowledge of delegated underwriting issues, including binding authorities, via brokers and/or MGAs, and lineslips.

As a former Lloyd’s broker, Mr Patten has an intimate knowledge of the issues and concerns of the London Market, including the need to find commercial solutions to carriers’ problems.

Litigation Matters

Mr Patten has handled numerous cases, including in the Commercial Court in London and in arbitrations in England, Europe and the United States. 

Presentations and Publications

Mr Patten speaks at industry conferences and client seminars. His recent presentations and articles include: 

• ‘E-Disclosure: Hands-on Guidelines from the English Courts’ (Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Flash, March 2010).
• ‘Insurers Helped by a Fraud Exclusion With Teeth’ (Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter, Spring 2010).
• ‘Irregular Award in Compania Sud-Americana de Vapores Case’ (Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter, Winter 2009/2010).
• Political Risk in the Financial Crisis – presentation at Sedgwick’s 22nd Annual London Insurance Seminar (2009).
• Struggle for Primacy: Arbitrations and the Courts in the E.U. and the U.S. – presentation at Sedgwick’s Seventh Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (2009)
• 'Sedgwick Summary: Follow the Settlements' (co-author, Sedgwick Summary publication, October 2009)
  'Taking Back the Pen – ‘Pre-Nups’ for Coverholders’ (Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter, Summer 2009)
• 'A Reinsurance Perspective on the European Market for FII' – presentation to C5 Conference, the European Forum on Financial Institutions Insurance (2009)
• 'Beware the Literal' – the need to consider the context of warranties in insurance contracts (Sedgwick's London & Bermuda Newsletter, Winter 2009)
• 'Procurement Perils' – the impact of the decision in RMP –v- Brent LBC on mutual insurance for public bodies in the UK (2008) 
• 'Arbitration Failure' – presentation to C5 Conference on why arbitration may not be the best solution for Market issues (2007) 
• 'ECO and XPL – obligations for carriers and brokers' – in-house presentations to various clients (2006)
• 'Jurisdiction and Choice of Law: pitfalls and best practice' – presentation to re-/insurance market, Lloyd’s of London (2005) 
• 'Claims Cooperation and Follow Settlement Clauses' – presentation to reinsurers on the competing demands of these two principles (2005) 
• 'Bad Software' – presentation to liability markets, Lloyd’s of London (2004)
• 'A broker’s guide to inspection of records' – in-house presentation to various broking houses in London (2004) 
   

Memberships & Honours

Mr Patten is a member of the British Insurance Law Association, the International Bar Association and the Society for Computers and Law.