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Catastrophic Injury lawyers

 

We handle complex and high value injury cases across the globe

Our market-leading catastrophic injury lawyers are trusted around the world by general and specialist insurers, corporations, and health and public sector bodies to defend their most serious cases.

We handle claims including fatalities, acquired brain injuries, spinal cord damage, amputations and chronic pain. These arise from accidents at work, in public spaces as a result of product liability or road traffic accidents.

Our approach is proactive, collaborative and fair, but firm. Our unrivalled experience and established relationships with experts, counsel and the leading claimant firms when combined with our market leading technology solutions mean we’re ideally placed to develop innovative and commercially guided solutions to the intractable problems that so often arise from these claims.

We ensure significant savings on overall indemnity spend. Our priority is to protect our clients’ position and ensure a fair and timely resolution at an appropriate level of damages.

We were the first in the Catastrophic Injury and Large Loss market to implement subject matter groups on areas of importance to our clients and their claims portfolios. Their work today, in this new world of rapid change is more relevant than ever. The team’s experience of each subject influences and supports the way we work both internally, and externally with our clients.

With a truly global offering, we support all our clients, insurers and corporates, with catastrophic injury and large loss claims, wherever in the world they occur. In the UK alone we have over 200 lawyers working on catastrophic injury claims.

Our expertise has been recognised with listings in the top tiers of leading legal directories Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, with a number of key individuals singled out for high praise and commendation.

Standout defendant insurer team with high value catastrophic injury work.
 

Legal 500 2022

The breadth of knowledge, technical expertise, negotiation abilities and personal skills on offer set them apart from the pack.

Chambers & Partners 2022

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Our Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss team

Mike Dobson
Mike Dobson

Partner

Val Jones
Val Jones

Partner

Vikki Melville
Vikki Melville

Partner

Chris Murray
Chris Murray

Partner

Cormac Fitzpatrick
Cormac Fitzpatrick

Partner

Tony Cawley
Tony Cawley

Partner

Andrew Kerr
Andrew Kerr

Partner

Kate Duffy
Kate Duffy

Partner

Luisa Lamb
Luisa Lamb

Partner

Andrew Hibbert
Andrew Hibbert

Partner

Estelle Machell
Estelle Machell

Partner

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Our Catastrophic Injury & Large Loss claims Work

  • All
  • Asia Pacific
  • North America
  • UK & Europe
  • Action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam

    Advising Dutch insurers in relation to an action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam on the care and Court of Protection element of a UK national's brain injury claim.

    Netherlands

    Baqueira Beret serious skiing accident

    Serious accident of a French citizen whilst skiing in Baqueira Beret resulting in paraplegia. Proceedings instigated both in France and in Spain.

    France

    Catastrophic road traffic accident claim

    Successfully defending to trial a serious road traffic accident claim brought by a Claimant who was rendered paraplegic in the accident.

    United Kingdom

    Contesting a discount rate in a claim for damages

    Acting for a German insurer in a claim for damages arising out of a serious injury and contesting the applicable discount rate in UK proceedings.

    United Kingdom
  • Defending a lift maintenance contractor

    Successfully defending a leading lift maintenance contractor in an accident when a lift technician fell and was rendered tetraplegic in the accident.

    Hong Kong
  • Grand Am racing event decapitation

    Securing a defence verdict on behalf of race car component manufacturer in a USD 60 million wrongful death claim arising from the death of a race car driver during a qualifying run at a Grand Am racing event

    United States

    Ford Explorer rollover deaths

    Obtaining a defence verdict for the tire manufacturer in the first verdict involving a US Ford Explorer rollover death with a tire tread separation

    United States
  • Baqueira Beret serious skiing accident

    Serious accident of a French citizen whilst skiing in Baqueira Beret resulting in paraplegia. Proceedings instigated both in France and in Spain.

    France

    Action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam

    Advising Dutch insurers in relation to an action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam on the care and Court of Protection element of a UK national's brain injury claim.

    Netherlands

    Catastrophic road traffic accident claim

    Successfully defending to trial a serious road traffic accident claim brought by a Claimant who was rendered paraplegic in the accident.

    United Kingdom

    Contesting a discount rate in a claim for damages

    Acting for a German insurer in a claim for damages arising out of a serious injury and contesting the applicable discount rate in UK proceedings.

    United Kingdom

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