how we helped our clients

Industrial Disease

Recent cases include:

• advising on public liability claims regarding labeling in the 1960s
• successfully resolving claim for secondary exposure from the 1950s
• successfully recovering contributions for damages and costs from insurers following a review of  the company history
• defending claim for contribution arising out of largest damages claim for an asbestos related condition
• acting in arbitration dispute between insurers regarding individual contributions.

Employer’s Liability

Recent cases include:

• successfully resisting a slip and trip claim following the retrieval of CCTV and its enhancement;
• advising insurers on the legal test for a patient for a claim previously settled on terms and successfully defending significant claim to appeal;
• advising insurers for occupiers and successfully defending claim on appeal with all liability assigned to employer;
• reinvestigating public liability claim following alleged injury from falling flower pot and establishing no injury caused with claim discontinued.

Self Insureds

We have assisted a company to set up a captive and to handle all EL claims made with proactive health and safety advice on reducing the likelihood of claims. Over the period of our involvement we have seen a reduction in the number of claims made and the value of claims paid.

We have been instructed by a major plc to handle all its claims in England and Wales.