Biography

Sarah Hills maintains a practice which focuses on insurance and reinsurance disputes. Ms Hills handles assignments in most classes of business with a particular emphasis on claims made under financial institutions, directors and officers and professional liability insurances in the UK and worldwide.

Ms Hills has handled a number of matters in the English High Court as well as numerous arbitrations governed by the English Arbitration Act and the Lloyd’s Arbitration Scheme. She has also represented several of her clients in mediations. 

Memberships & Honors

Ms Hills is admitted to the Law Society of England and Wales. She is a member of ARIAS, the British Insurance Law Association and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS). She is noted in the Legal 500 guide to legal service providers as being “very detail oriented,” and as a key member of Sedgwick’s London team.

Presentations & Publications

Ms Hills regularly speaks at industry conferences on D&O issues and has spoken on English television’s Einstein Network Insurance Law Channel about current insurance and reinsurance issues. She has also written a number of articles on insurance and reinsurance topics which have been published in Sweet & Maxwell’s Insurance and Reinsurance Law Briefing and in Insurance Day.

Her presentations include:

• "The Impact on D&O Insurance of the Companies Act and other UK Legal & Regulatory Developments," C5 Conferences’ 18th Forum D&O Liability Insurance 2010 Seminar in London (March 17, 2010).
• "Assessing the Impact of a Hardening Reinsurance Market on Primary D&O Carriers," presented at C5 Conferences’ 4th Annual European Forum on D&O Liability Insurance in Cologne (October 20-21, 2009). 
• "European D&O – Emerging Challenges," presented at Sedgwick’s 21st Annual London Insurance Seminar (October 28, 2009).

Her publications include:

• "U.K. Act Makes It Easier for Third Party to Collect From Insolvent Party's Insurer," Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (May 2010).
• "Inherent Vice as a Policy Defence?" Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter (Spring 2010).
• "Disclosure of ‘Without Prejudice’ Settlement Exchanges," Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter (Winter 2009/2010).
• "Inherent Vice and Inevitable Loss," Sedgwick’s London & Bermuda Newsletter (Summer 2009).
• "Sedgwick Summary: D&O Securities Claims," co-author, Sedgwick publication (May 2009).
• "Circumstances Again: When Is a ‘Disagreement’ Notifiable?" co-author, Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (Spring 2009).
• "The English Court’s approach to credit crunch claims?", Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (Winter 2009). 
• "No US jurisdiction over foreign exchange trading" coauthored with Chen Foley, Insurance Day (15 August 2008). 
• "Foreign Purchasers of securities prevented from bringing claims in the U.S. Courts", Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (Summer 2008). 
• "Federal Court Held to Not Have Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Foreign Securities Buyers", Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (July 2008).
• "Investigating Claims Without Reserving Rights", Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (Summer 2008).
• "Notifications Must Be Clear", Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (December 2007).
• "Reserve Your Rights or Wave Them Good-bye!" and "The Perils of Business Interruption Insurance Apologies?" Sedgwick’s London and Bermuda Newsletter (September 2007).