The insurance law department of Belzuz Abogados started its activity within the Corporate Law Department, advising clients in those matters related to insurance law.
The growing demand for services related to the insurance world and the specialization required by this sector gave rise to the creation of the department in 1998, which explored and treated different study issues related to insurance law.
Our experience
We have great experience advising about insurance law, both in relation to national and foreign insurances. We count with a multidisciplinary team, with corporate, tax and litigation lawyers for the best treatment of the matters.
Our clients
National and international companies of first level trust their claims to our team. Today we are involved in torts of all kinds, in all the insurance market.
With the support of Litigation Department, Belzuz Abogados takes part in several litigation procedures, and also in arbitration and expertise procedures, to give a good treatment to the tort at a national level.
Global Services
Our presence in Spain and Portugal with offices in Lisboa and Oporto makes it possible for us to offer a global service in the dealing of Tort proceedings, offering an adding plus for the insurance entities in the processing of claims.
We have dealt directly in the setting up of different insurance companies, helping them to develop and adapt their structures and policies to the local requirements and peculiarities.
Negotiation Objectives
Belzuz Abogados stands out dealing with various situations and intervenes, looking for settlement, achieving good agreements and for this reason many times avoiding the court.
The insurance law department offers global advice in the following areas of insurance law:
- Assessment and legal opinions on the applicable legislation.
- Relations with the Dirección General de Seguros and with the Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros (Access to the insurance business, expansion of the activity, revocation of permits, violations and penalties, complaints to the Comisionado para la Defensa del Asegurado).
- Analysis and amendment of policies (draft of general, particular and special conditions, delimitation and limitation of risk, etc…);
- Filing of consultations with the Dirección General de Seguros, in coordination with the regulatory entities.
- Rights and obligations of the parties, payment of premiums, quantification of the damages.
- Legal advice to mediators, choosing the best mediator taking into consideration the needs of the client.
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Belzuz Abogados intervenes in the process, claim and/or legal defense or transaction of the matters related with civil liability:
- Product liability insurance and industrial risks
- Civil liability regarding health insurance
- General civil liability
- D&O civil liability of directors
- Civil liability regarding the environment
- Total risk/construction
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- Assistance in the process of the claims / negotiation
- Claims and judicial litigation, transactions and calculation of damages
- Repeat Actions
- Valuation of property and personal damages
- Assistance and coordination with experts with respect to the valuation of damages and identification of the causes.
- Legal Defense
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Belzuz Abogados advices in the negotiation of insurance or reinsurance agreements, with respect to its adaptation to the legal frame, as well as in the design of legal structure.
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- Assistance in the process of the claims / negotiation
- Claims and judicial litigation, transactions and calculation of damages
- Repeat Actions
- Valuation of property and personal damages
- Assistance and coordination with experts with respect to the valuation of damages and identification of the causes.
- Legal Defense
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- Assistance in the process of the claims / negotiation
- Claims and judicial litigation, transactions and calculation of damages
- Repeat Actions
- Valuation of property and personal damages
- Assistance and coordination with experts with respect to the valuation of damages and identification of the causes.
- Legal Defense
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- Incorporation of Insurance companies.
- Incorporation of branches of foreign insurance companies.
- Mergers and Acquisition of insurance companies.
- Acquisitions of portfolio.
- Tax representation to foreign companies that are acting under Freedom to provide services.
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- Assistance in the process of the claims / negotiation
- Claims and judicial litigation, transactions and calculation of damages
- Repeat Actions
- Valuation of property and personal damages
- Assistance and coordination with experts with respect to the valuation of damages and identification of the causes.
- Legal Defense
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INTERNATIONAL VOCATION
With a clear international vocation Belzuz Abogados España and Portugal belongs since 2002 to Insuralex (Global Insurance Lawyers Group), an international league of law firms specialized in insurance law, with partners in Europe, USA, Canada and Brasil. Insuralex was born with the aim to facilitate the insurance claims as a consequence of the economical globalization, and it is currently present in 20 jurisdictions and with growing spirit.
