Sarah Crowther

Sarah Crowther is an experienced litigator specialising in FI/D&O and professional indemnity insurance.   

Sarah is an insurance Partner in our London Walbrook office with a broad range of litigation experience. Sarah’s specialisms include advising on policy coverage and the monitoring and defence of claims against financial institutions, directors and officers and a range of professionals, with a particular focus on insurance brokers and legal professionals. Sarah’s cases generally involve complex, high value claims, often with an international element.

Sarah has a strong understanding of the London Market having undertaken secondments in the claims teams at two Insurers and in the legal team at a global insurance brokerage.  

Sarah's experience includes

• Advising London market reinsurances of a financial institution program following a fraud committed by a panel attorney of a South African Bank.
• Representing Insurers in respect of an application made under Section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981.
• Advising insurance brokers on claims concerning block notifications, advice given to Insured parties pre-inception and the adequacy of cover obtained.
• Advising on the potential liabilities of an overseas bank in relation to its role as a market maker where there had been fraudulent manipulation of the prices of single stock futures.

Sarah qualified in 2006 and joined DAC Beachcroft in 2016. Sarah obtained her Higher Rights in 2015.