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Ekelmans Advocaten strengthens team with Marcella de Haan as Partner

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As of October 1, 2024, Marcella de Haan has started as an attorney partner at Ekelmans Advocaten. We are very pleased to have Marcella join our team. She can now put her years of experience as a lawyer in insurance and liability law to work for clients of our firm. We are looking forward to working with Marcella again: she had previously worked in our office as an insurance and liability lawyer.

Marcella is an expert in insurance and liability law, with a focus on technical insurance. She is a leading lawyer not only in the Engineering practice, but also in Professional Liability and Corporate Liability.

With her experience as a senior attorney at a major insurer, Marcella knows the insurance industry inside out. With great expertise, market knowledge and her down-to-earth empathetic approach, she knows well what clients want and gets to the heart of the matter quickly.

Also because Marcella until recently combined her position as a lawyer in the insurance sector with a management position, she is an asset as a partner in our firm.

In addition to her work as a lawyer, Marcella shares her knowledge as a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University. She is co-author of the handbook Professional Liability and also contributed to the Compendium Insurance Law, of which a new edition was recently published. She is also an editorial board member of the online journal Insurance Law, Liability, Claims and Supervision (VAST) and a board member of the Association for Insurance Science.

I look forward to co-leading the Engineering practice with Marcella” says Frank Schaaf, attorney and partner at Ekelmans Lawyers. “Her expertise, experience and knowledge of insurers make Marcella an asset to our firm and our clients. It is a pleasure to work with Marcella again”.

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With great expertise, market knowledge and her down-to-earth empathetic approach, she knows well what clients want and gets to the heart of the matter quickly.

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Years of experience with professional liability

Professionals are increasingly being held personally liable for problems. If a professional with liability insurance is accused of an error, it is to the benefit of everyone involved to determine quickly whether the accusation is justified and whether the insured professional is liable for damage.

Ekelmans Advocaten has been handling liability cases for professionals and their insurers for years. We have wide-ranging experience in advice and litigation, in civil-law cases, with disputes committees and with disciplinary courts.

Law firm for professional liability

Ekelmans Advocaten is your premier choice for professional liability issues. The leading liability insurers in the Netherlands have been clients of ours for years. We are engaged by these insurers to handle professional liability cases for accountants, lawyers, doctors, insurance brokers, tax consultants, construction companies, structural engineers, bailiffs, engineers, IT firms, estate agents, civil-law notaries, patent agents, financial advisers, liquidators, tax lawyers and asset valuers.

We are one of the few law firms to have a dedicated team for professional liability. Our team consists of eight lawyers with different specialist fields within professional liability law. By combining their knowledge and experience, they can act quickly and effectively.

When assessing a liability issue, it is important to determine whether the professional in question acted with due care. Was an error committed? Was the duty of disclosure fulfilled? Was sufficient warning given of certain risks? Rather than a simple yes or no, the answers to these questions will have many nuances. Our team assesses the matter from a range of perspectives, whereby the rules of professional practice and code of conduct applicable to the professional in question play a prominent role.

We are able to give an accessible, comprehensible and convincing explanation of whether an error was committed and if so, whether it resulted in damage. If necessary, we will negotiate a settlement between the parties. We also assist professionals in any disciplinary proceedings. We will defend them in civil proceedings if it comes to that, right up to the Supreme Court if need be.

Should publicity be an actual or potential issue, we try to prevent this if possible, and otherwise we help get the message across clearly and concisely encapsulating the essence of the case.

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