Paul-Henry Delvaux
Paul-Henry Delvaux has been heading the firm’s "Liability and Insurance" practice for over twenty years. He is a recognised specialist in that field of law which he lectured for a long time at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Paul-Henry Delvaux has been practicing law for over forty years in the field of contractual and extra-contractual liability law, and in particular in matters related to medical liability, professional liability and construction liability.
He is a recognised specialist in liability insurance and construction insurance, and is involved in both consulting and litigation.
He was an assistant professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and later a lecturer until 2008 at the same institution.
He also taught insurance law at the University Center of Charleroi and at the International Institute of Insurance Law in Yaoundé (Cameroon).
Since 1975, he has been an effective member of the Insurance Commission of the FSMA, the insurance industry’s regulator.
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Counsel to various insurance companies in matters of construction insurance, health and accident insurance, fire insurance and theft insurance
Defense, in particular, for more than fifteen years, of insurers in various construction liability claims affecting the headquarters, in Brussels, of the Commission of the European Union
Counsel to numerous individuals in matters of medical liability and traffic accidents or accidents of daily life causing bodily injury
Counsel to numerous individuals in matters of personal injury assessment
Counsel to various large Belgian construction companies
Counsel to an airline company in the context of an air disaster that occurred in 1995 near Bucharest
Counsel to some of the victims of the Brussels bombings of March 2016
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Insurance and liability law
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Education :
Master of Laws (UCL 1974);
Master in economic law (UCL 1975);
Bar: Brussels
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Knight of the Order of Leopold
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• L’expertise amiable et l’expertise judiciaire offrent-elles les mêmes garanties ? IN : Droit médical, dommage corporel : état des lieux et perspectives, p. 9 à 35, Anthémis, 2014.
• Le droit des animaux, perspectives d’avenir : préface ; ouvrage dirigé par Mme F. Dossche, Larcier 2019, p. 11 à 15.
• Réforme du droit de la responsabilité et des assurances : recension de l’ouvrage de Mme I. Lutte, Forum des assurances, 2020, p. 20 à 23.
• Trente ans de prise en compte du dommage corporel. Menus propos sur le paradis rêvé et l’enfer menaçant, IN : Liber Amicorum Denis Philippe, volume 2, p. 1141 à 1152 ; Larcier 2022.