21 Jul 2026
Martínez-Echevarría establishes Insurance Law Department led by Eva Fuerte
"Martínez-Echevarría hires Eva Fuerte to lead its new Insurance Law Department in Madrid; she will work in insurance and reinsurance law."
Fuerte is a lawyer with more than twenty years of experience advising insurance and reinsurance companies and joins Martínez-Echevarría from Kennedys. She will head the new department from the firm’s Madrid office.
She began her career at Cuatrecasas, where she specialised in civil liability matters. Since 2007 she has worked at firms including DAC Beachcroft, Clyde & Co and Muñoz Arribas Abogados, representing insurance companies before various jurisdictions and handling complex proceedings and some of the market’s most significant claims, advising insurers and reinsurers operating in Spain and internationally, including Zurich and Generali.
Fuerte also spent three years at Zurich in the Litigation Department, advising claims and underwriting teams on coverage, risk management, reinsurance, relations with intermediaries and customer service. While there she sat on the company’s Serious Risk Committees and advised its life insurance division. Alongside her practice she has published in the Anuario Contencioso of Wolters Kluwer, INESE, BDS and the Revista de Abogados del Estado, and has taught on the bar access masters programmes run by ISDE and the Madrid Bar Association.