About Us

Established in Bristol in June 2000 by Trevor Fox and Matthew Hartley, Fox Hartley focuses on the Lloyd’s and Companies’ insurance market and manufacturing industry.

Our clients benefit from using a highly specialised niche law firm located outside London. Our service is personal, flexible and tailored to clients’ needs. Clients value our City background, experience and expertise at fees reflecting our lower Bristol overheads. Having a presence at Lloyd’s enables us to maintain our strong connection with the London insurance market. We have close links with the French, German, Japanese and Swedish insurance markets and their local representatives.

We are specialists in domestic and international litigation, arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution and have particular expertise in helping insurers develop new products and in drafting wordings. We routinely deal with insurance and reinsurance policy wording disputes addressing validity and coverage. Acting for domestic and international manufacturing clients, we provide guidance with recall campaigns and defend product liability claims. We provide advice in relation to serious incidents across a wide range of industry sectors and defend health and safety prosecutions. We defend personal injury claims and group litigation actions.