Louise is a forensic accountant with 20 years in the accounting profession and is DIP CILA qualified. She has extensive experience in the quantification of multi-million-pound financial losses for insurance and legal purposes, acting for major insurers, reinsurers and lawyers. Louise is a business interruption specialist and has considerable experience across a wide range of sectors including hospitality, retail, manufacturing, engineering, energy and agriculture. She has worked on property damage losses, product recall, stock and liability claims, cyber, advanced loss of profits and DSU claims. Louise is an agriculture specialist, having handled multi-million-pound livestock and crop claims.
Louise is President of the London Business Interruption Association and involved in the following associations: Insurance Institute Liability Committee, London Business Interruption Association LBIA, CILA BI SIG (Special Interest Group) Committee, ICAEW Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Academy of Experts and has recently completed the expert witness CUBS Accreditation.
Notable Assignments:
- Food production Covid-19 claim where Louise was appointed as expert on behalf of insurers which involved a mediation process and production of a joint expert statement (£52 million)
- Business interruption loss for a major national charity (£50 million)
- Livestock mortality claim (US $17 million)
- Claim for loss of profit for a major energy company due to mechanical breakdown (£67 million)
- Specialist investigation into the liquidation of a major retailer (£5 million)
- Asset leasing stock loss (£10 million)
- Appointed on a litigation case to assess quantum on a stock loss in Turkey (€4 million)
- Loss of profit claim for a timber merchant following a considerable fire in a critical part of the production machinery (€2 million)
- Beef processing business: BI claim (€5 million)
- Business Interruption and stock claim for large manufacturing claim Saudia Arabia (£8 million)
- Business Interruption claim for large water treatment production business (£6 million)
