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Richard West
Partner
Telephone: +44 845 838 4832
Mobile: +44 77 7591 8424

Richard West

-Partner

Experience

  • General liability specialist (motor, EL and PL) with experience in advising on indemnity and policy matters
  • Particular areas of expertise include catastrophic, brain and psychiatric injury on behalf of insurers, self-insured and policyholders
  • Extensive experience in training clients' claims staff and has established a number of bespoke training schemes for clients

Significant reported cases

  • Clenshaw v Mick Gould Commercials [2002]
  • Ball v London Borough of Southwark [2003]
  • Chadli v London General Bus Company [2005]

Clients

  • Local authorities and London boroughs
  • Brokers
  • EL/PL Insurers
  • Motor insurers
  • Metropolitan public transport supplier
  • Claims handling companies

Publications

  • Essential Law for Claims Handlers (Butterworths 2001) – Co-author
  • Claims Handling: Law and Practice – A Practitioner's Guide – Co-author, published 2008

Miembro de las sociedades

  • FOIL - Forum of Insurance Lawyers