Mark Aitken

Experience

• I have worked continuously for the insurance sector for the last 25 years.
• I specialise in property and commercial claims involving fraud and related policy coverage issues.
• I have extensive experience of high value and complex claims involving arson, staged theft and other deliberate or exaggerated damage.
• I regularly advise insurers preparing responses to the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Significant reported cases

Bate v Aviva Insurance [2014] EWCA Civ 334
Yeates v Aviva Insurance [2012] EWCA Civ 634
Aviva Insurance v Brown [2011] EWHC 362 (QBD)
Joseph Fielding Properties (Blackpool) Ltd v Aviva Insurance [2010] EWHC 2192 (QBD)
Direct Line Insurance v Khan [2001] EWCA Civ 1794, [2002] Lloyd's Rep IR 364
 

Membership/appointments

• BILA