Occupational Disease & Legacy claims

Our market-leading team handles thousands of occupational disease and legacy claims annually, serving insurers, self-insured companies, multinationals, and public sector bodies. With a global footprint, we track emerging risks and offer cross-border solutions.

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Our occupational disease and legacy claims team handles thousands of claims each year. We are trusted partners to major composite, run-off and specialist insurers, self-insured companies, multinationals with captive cover and public sector bodies. Our global footprint allows us to monitor trends and developments of emerging risks for our clients and offer cross-border solutions.

We act in individual matters (pre- and post-litigation), long-tail and short-tail claims, group litigation, strategic litigation projects. We provide advice on handling policies, government consultations and costs. 

Our expertise includes asbestos, asthma, lung disease, autoimmune disorders, back injuries, cancer, carbon monoxide poisoning, carpal tunnel syndrome, chemical and biological agent exposure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dermatitis, hand-arm vibration syndrome, pneumoconiosis, upper limb disorders, respiratory diseases, work-related stress and noise-induced hearing loss. We manage product liability class actions and a significant volume of run-off disease claims.

Our innovative strategies reduce indemnity spending when handling long-tail and short-tail claims, most notably:

  • Our 'pay and be paid' mesothelioma claims handling scheme
  • Our diffuse pleural thickening asbestosis initiative, and 
  • Our strategic approach to immunotherapy.

Our partner-led service assures quality through technical expertise, bespoke case management and information provision. Our global partner network advises on comparative law, litigation and emerging risks and issues. 

We work closely as thought leaders with industry bodies to shape the legacy and latent disease policy landscape. We keep clients up to date on the latest industry developments, helping them to prepare for changes that will impact their business. We regularly work with clients to build strategies to meet anticipated emerging risks, for example claims potential from the COVID-19 pandemic and dynamic Know Your Opponent strategies.

Brilliant. They are excellent technically, and get what our needs and desires are. They provide a tailored approach that works well for us" 

Chambers and Partners, 2022

Our Occupational Disease & Legacy Claims Work

  • All
  • UK & Europe
  • Advising Unions in redundancy and TUPE transfers

    Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened

    United Kingdom

    Allegations of failure to consult on a change programme

    Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.

    United Kingdom

    Establishing internal employee consultation structures

    Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)

    United Kingdom

    Legal options of balloting and strike action

    Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)

    United Kingdom

    Long running Unite Employment Tribunal case

    Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings

    United Kingdom

    Pre-litigation equal pay case and Trade Union negotiations

    Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.

    United Kingdom

    Request for registration as a leviable establishment

    Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.

    United Kingdom

    Resolution of dispute and avoiding industrial action

    Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action

    United Kingdom

    Resolving disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes

    United Kingdom

    Trade Union rule book revisions

    Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions

    United Kingdom
  • Advising Unions in redundancy and TUPE transfers

    Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened

    United Kingdom

    Allegations of failure to consult on a change programme

    Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.

    United Kingdom

    Establishing internal employee consultation structures

    Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)

    United Kingdom

    Legal options of balloting and strike action

    Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)

    United Kingdom

    Long running Unite Employment Tribunal case

    Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings

    United Kingdom

    Pre-litigation equal pay case and Trade Union negotiations

    Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.

    United Kingdom

    Request for registration as a leviable establishment

    Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.

    United Kingdom

    Resolution of dispute and avoiding industrial action

    Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action

    United Kingdom

    Resolving disputes via ACAS and other processes

    Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes

    United Kingdom

    Trade Union rule book revisions

    Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions

    United Kingdom

Our Occupational Disease and Legacy claims team

Chris Fletcher
Chris Fletcher

Partner

David Tait
David Tait

Partner

Toni Ashby
Toni Ashby

Partner

Duncan Batchelor
Duncan Batchelor

Partner

Jason Bleasdale
Jason Bleasdale

Partner

Harry Boyle
Harry Boyle

Partner

Clinton Cameron
Clinton Cameron

Partner

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