Andrew Rigney KC - Insurance Coverage in Construction Projects

Andrew Rigney KC, Joint Head of Crown Office Chambers, specialises in high‑value construction and insurance disputes and international arbitration. He is ranked as a Leading Silk across six practice areas. In Chambers UK 2026, he is ranked as a “Star Individual” for Construction and Property Damage, and in Band 1 for Insurance, International Arbitration and Professional Negligence, with multiple Silk‑of‑the‑Year short listings. He was awarded Lexicology Client Choice 2026 for Insurance.

Andrew has extensive experience of, and expertise in, the major standard construction forms, including FIDIC, NEC, JCT and IChemE, and of leading large, multi‑disciplinary teams on disputes ranging into billions of US dollars relating to some of the largest construction and engineering disputes across the world, including the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and, increasingly, in Hong Kong. 

In addition, he has extensive experience of, and expertise in, large-scale insurance disputes relating to CAR/EAR policies (including DE and LEG clauses), property risks, business interruption claims, and professional indemnity, public liability, employers liability, product liability and war and political risk polices.

Andrew has appeared in milestone cases such as the FCA Covid‑19 Business Interruption Test Case in the UK Supreme Court and Sky v Riverstone [EWCA] Civ 1567 in the Court of Appeal, and is instructed in some of the most substantial disputes relating to fire claims and defective cladding in high-rise buildings (as well as disputes as to insurance coverage for such claims), including the high-profile Grenfell Tower litigation arising out of the catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower in London 2017.

He is described in Legal 500 and Chambers UK as “absolutely brilliant”, “supremely clever”, an “exceptional advocate”, a “phenomenal” and “devastating” cross-examiner and “the most client and solicitor friendly KC at the construction Bar...”