Andrea Crisp

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Andrea is a Legal Director in the Healthcare Department acting for a variety of healthcare professionals and providers on instructions from medical defence organisations, insurers and NHS Resolution. Andrea specialises in clinical negligence claims and claims brought under the Equality Act 2010. Andrea qualified as a Solicitor in 2013 and joined Clyde & Co LLP in 2020.

Prior to joining Clyde & Co LLP, Andrea spent 6 years at another leading defendant firm specialising in the defence of clinical negligence claims.

Andrea manages a wide-ranging caseload dealing with both medical and dental multi-party negligence claims for insurers, medical defence organisations, NHS Trusts and private clients. Andrea's practice includes high value and complex claims involving injuries of the utmost severity, cross jurisdictional issues, issues of non delegable duty and vicarious liability. She manages novel claims involving the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Right Act 1998. She regularly represents her clients at contested hearings in both the High Court and County Court, mediations, conferences and settlement meetings.

Andrea has been ranked by Legal500 where she is described as an ‘‘excellent lawyer’’ and a ‘’name to note with a particular strength in handling claims relating to the Equality Act 2010 and experience acting alongside Splaine in cross-jurisdictional cases’’.

相关经验

• Secured discontinuance of a high value cardiology claim following service of robust factual and expert evidence.
• Achieved resolution to a sensitive case involving secondary victim claims at mediation where the parties had reached an impasse previously.
• Secured discontinuance of a complex and sensitive claim against a GP one month before Trial.
• Secured discontinuance of a high value complex claim concerning alleged inappropriate obstetric and anaesthetic management.
• Resolved liability in a high value complex obstetric claim following detailed investigations into liability.
• Achieved resolution to a sensitive, complex, and high value claim at mediation where Clyde & Co LLP represented multiple defendants.