Runar has more than 30 years’ experience as an adviser to international and national insurance companies, brokers, and insurance agents. Runar also assists insureds, organizations, and business associations in connection with handling insurance cases and insurance schemes.

He has handled a number of major insurance and reinsurance disputes, especially within liability insurance, including directors’ liability (D&O) and product liability, as well as crime, real estate, travel, commodity, cyber, construction, and project insurance, in addition to claims related to financial lines. He has also often been engaged as so-called “monitoring counsel”, both for Norwegian companies involved in disputes abroad and for foreign companies in Norway.

Runar has handled a large number of directors’ and professional liability cases, especially for lawyers, insurance brokers, auditors, claim settlement companies, etc. He has also assisted in numerous claims and recourse cases within most types of casualtyinsurance.

Within the transport sector, he assists business organizations, as well as international and domestic large and medium sized forwarding agents and logistics companies.

He has also litigated a significant number of cases before Norwegian courts, including several arbitration cases. Runar has been admitted to appear before the Supreme Court since 2005.

Runar Hansen bistår klienter særlig innen forsikringsbransjen, logistikk- og transportnæringen og med profesjons- og styreansvarssaker.

Runar har mer enn 30 års erfaring som rådgiver for internasjonale og nasjonale forsikringsselskaper, forsikringsmeglere og forsikringsagenter. Runar bistår også forsikringstakere, organisasjoner og næringslivssammenslutninger i forbindelse med håndtering av forsikringssaker og forsikringsordninger.

Han har håndtert en rekke større forsikrings- og reassuransetvister – særlig innenfor ansvarsforsikring – inkludert styreansvar (D&O) og produktansvar, samt kriminalitet-, fast eiendom-, reise-, vare-, cyber-, entreprise- og prosjektforsikringer. Runar håndterer også krav tilknyttet «Financial lines». Han engasjeres i tillegg ofte som såkalt «monitoring counsel», både for norske selskaper som har hatt tvistesaker i utlandet og for utenlandske selskaper i Norge.

Runar har håndtert et stort antall styre- og profesjonsansvarssaker, særlig for advokater, forsikringsmeglere, revisorer, skadeoppgjørsselskaper mv. Han har også bistått i en rekke erstatningssaker og regressaker innenfor de fleste typer skadeforsikring.

Innen transportsektoren bistår han næringslivsorganisasjoner samt internasjonale og nasjonale store og mellomstore speditører og logistikkselskaper.

Han har også prosedert et betydelig antall saker for norske domstoler, inkludert en rekke voldgiftssaker. Runar fikk møterett for Høyesterett i 2005.

The ranking agency The Legal 500 awards Runar a Leading Individual ranking as one of Norway's leading insurance law attorneys in 2024. He has also previously been ranked as a Key Lawyer in Construction and as one of Norway's leading lawyers in insurance law in 

Satisfied clients report, among other that: 

Runar Hansen has deep knowledge of insurance. He is very experienced and solution-oriented

Runar Hansen. Very good knowledge of the insurance industry and a very skilled negotiator

 rangering som en av Norges ledende forsikringsrettsadvokater i 2024. Han har også tidligere blitt rangert som Key Lawyer innen Construction, og som en av Norges ledende advokater på forsikringsrett i 

Fornøyde klienter rapporterer blant annet at:

Runar Hansen has deep knowledge of insurance. He is very experienced and solution oriented

Runar Hansen. Very good knowledge of insurance industry and a very good negotiator

2018–	Partner, Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS
1995–2018	Partner, DLA Piper
1989–1990	Associate judge, Trondenes Sorenskriverembete
1987–1988	Senior executive officer, Legal department, The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway

Runar Hansen

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