Unfortunately disasters and incidents do happen and they can affect businesses and individuals in many ways. Any incident which adversely affects you or your business, apart from acts of God, can give rise to a claim against insurers or the party who allegedly caused the damage. Examples of such incidents include:
- A claim for damages under an avoided policy of insurance
- Negligence by any one of the many professional advisers to business (see professional negligence)
- The landlord’s failure to repair a leaky roof
- Blocked access to business premises
- Adjacent construction work damaging the claimant’s premises
- Theft of a customer list by a disaffected sales director
- Plant failure
- Personal injury from road traffic accidents and accidents at work
- Dependency claim arising from fatal accidents
- Medical negligence claims
Any such interruption can give rise to a claim in damages, and lead to an intellectual challenge for forensic accountants to meet.
Our forensic accountants will investigate the incident and assess your individual or business’s losses as a result of this. We will then take the appropriate action to recover the losses against the other party or recover them under the benefit of an insurance policy.
Why would you need it?
- You are a solicitor and need to appoint an accountancy firm to quantify the losses for legal proceedings and act as an independent expert witness
- You need an accountant to help quantify losses for the purposes of insurance claims for your organisation