National law firm Weightmans has acquired a new travel insurance team.
Specialising in travel-related litigation and claims, the team is led by a trio brought in from Crawford Legal Services and includes Victoria Edwards, a legal director with nearly 20 years’ experience in casualty claims.
Kieran Jones (pictured), head of insurance and partner at Weightmans LLP, said: 'A new government, new regulation, increasing cross-border complexity and ever-more prevalent AI-enabled fraud means both the insurance and travel landscapes are only getting more challenging. It’s essential that advisors to the sector like us respond to that, expanding our areas of specialism and deepening our offering to reflect this ever more nuanced environment.
'Strong financial performance is what enables us to be agile. Being able to acquire new specialisms when the right external opportunities present themselves is essential to evolving our insurance offering, alongside an ongoing focus on nurturing internal talent.'
Alongside the new travel practice, Weightmans brought in a new sport liability insurance team in 2023, headed up by catastrophic injury specialist and partner Philip Tracey.
In mid-2023, the firm also acquired Pierre Thomas Law, a specialist provider of legal advice on international claims and the defence of accident claims throughout Europe.
