Chris Eccles

Profil complet

Chris is a partner in the Casualty Team and is based in our Manchester office.  Chris's practice includes defence of large loss and catastrophic personal injury claims for insurers.

In particular, Chris specialises in personal injury claims in excess of GBP 10 million including road traffic accidents, employers’ liability and public liability claims.

Chris has developed expertise in advising on a variety of injury types such as brain injuries (including mTBI), spinal cord injuries, amputations and chronic pain. 

Chris leads the firm’s PPO Unit and is advising several insurers on the capitalisation of existing PPOs. He is a member of the Spinal Injury SMG and on FOIL’s Catastrophic Injury Sector Focus Team.

Chris is recommended in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Expérience

• Advising insurers in complex high value personal injury claims in relation to policy liability, legal liability and quantum
• Acting on a brain injury claim pleaded at £37m which included an application for disclosure of the Court of Protection papers
• Representing insurers in a complete paraplegia claim pleaded at £24m involving novel contributory negligence arguments.
• Acting for the Defendant in Hibberd-Little v Carlton [2018], successfully defending a subtle brain injury claim in the High Court following an 11 day trial.
• Advising on a serious amputation case that featured award winning rehabilitation.
• Acting for a large utility company in a multi-party, multi million pound dispute, involving a Claimant who suffered tetraplegia.