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Helen Tilley

Consultant Solicitor

What can I do for you

Helen has approaching 35 years of market leading experience advising (re)insurers, Friendly Societies and Syndicates on insurance coverage for a wide range of life/protection and general insurance products. Originally from a dispute resolution background, Helen’s practice has broadened to being a ‘cradle to grave’ advisory service, extending from insurance product development and drafting (taking into account medical advancements), drafting reinsurance treaties, compliance & regulatory issues, fraud prevention and detection as well as data protection risk issues.

Supporting your ambitions

By engaging closely with the market and regularly contributing to a range of committees and forums, Helen is able to keep abreast of emerging trends and bring broad legal insight to help achieve solutions for her clients.
Helen works as a team with her clients, who range in size. Some have their own in-house legal resource, and welcome Helen’s specialist input particularly where complex, technical or sensitive issues arise.
Helen’s expertise assists her clients to reach fair negotiated resolution of disputes. But she can also strategically and thoroughly prepare a case through to trial.
Helen regularly presents at insurance industry events, and can provide in-house training for clients’ claims and underwriting teams.

Additional Information

Helen is passionate about fraud detection and prevention and for over 20 years has been the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for her law firm at the Insurance Fraud Investigators Group (IFIG).
For over 5 years, Helen has attended the International Underwriting Association’s Personal Accident and Health Underwriting Group and the IUA’s Contingency & Personal Accident and Health Claims Committee.

 

What do others say

“Has excellent communication skills, attention to detail and a deep knowledge of insurance law. Helen is our go-to resource for both disputes and general advisory work” (Legal 500)

“The foremost legal expert in protection claims in our view” (Legal 500)

“Helen Tilley has exceptional knowledge of life and health insurance and a particular awareness of the various sensitivities that arise” (Legal 500)

What else should you know

Helen volunteers at harvest time at a local vineyard and holds Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) qualifications. Flower arranging is another hobby for relaxation, and she was thrilled to be awarded a Royal Horticulture Society bronze medal at her annual village show. Weekends are spent watching her sons play Club rugby and cricket.

 

What our clients say about us

  • I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.
  • They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.
  • All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.
  • I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.

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