Kennedys - Our people

Experience

Full range of liability claims, particularly EL/PL, motor, and fatal accidents.
Catastrophic injury and large losses, including brain and spinal injury, amputations, multiple trauma, periodical payments, care funding, and rehabilitation management.
Transport claims and issues affecting the bus, rail, and haulage sectors, including a well known rail disaster and rail industry dispute resolution via CAHA and the RIDR Committee.
Occupational disease claims, including asbestos, asthma, silicosis, hearing loss, acoustic shock, vibration, work related upper limb disorders, bladder cancer, and stress.
Advising uninsured corporates on progressive solutions for their long-tail disease liabilities.
Test litigation.
Claims issues including mediation, fraud and malingering, policy coverage, insurance insolvency, jurisdiction and international claims, auditing, and pre-litigation claims handling.

Leading individual in Legal 500 since 2006
Leader in field in Chambers UK since 2008
"Thorough, knowledgeable, tactically astute, tenacious, and a complete professional" (Legal 500, 2006)
"Transport claims expert" (Legal 500, 2008)
"A good communicator who always comes back with a response and an opinion that he can back up" (Chambers UK, 2008)
“Consistently high level” (Legal 500, 2009)
"He provides us with a great service and never wastes money" (Chambers UK, 2009)

Municipal Mutual Insurance v Zurich & Others (High Court, 2008). The EL Policy Trigger Litigation relating to whether mesothelioma is covered at the date of exposure or injury.
Finster v Arriva (Supreme Court Costs Office, 2007). £1.4m whiplash claim by City trader settled for £10,000 and leading to costs sanctions on account of exaggeration.
Jest v Thistle Hotels plc (Court of Appeal, 2001). Burden of proof in fraudulent EL claims.
Brain injury claim relating to fall from scaffolding, featuring successful defence of £1m interim payment application and settlement of £4.2m including periodical payments order.
Brain injury claim by 2 year-old struck by train after accessing track via unfenced embankment.
Subtle brain injury claim by motorist following low speed rear-end shunt.
Psychiatric injury claim by Polish migrant assaulted in the UK, involving quantum issues of loss of chance of UK earnings and assessing care regime at local Polish rates.
£2m stress claim by City banker.
Complex regional pain syndrome claim by helicopter pilot following motorcycle accident.
Blindness claim by scrapyard worker following fire extinguisher explosion.
£1m mesothelioma claim by managing director.
Contempt of court proceedings against claimant who alleged forced retirement and was found to be still working.

'Loss of earnings', client seminar, February 2008
'EL Policy Trigger Litigation', London Underwriters Group, May 2008
'Mediation', Chartered Institute of Insurers, October 2008
'EL Policy Trigger Litigation', International Underwriters Association, November 2008
'UK Asbestos Developments', International Alliance of Asbestos and Pollution Reinsurers, December 2008
'The Blame Game - Contributory negligence & failure to mitigate', client seminar, January 2009
'Proactive Claims Handling', client seminar, April 2009
'The Asbestos Conundrum', national broker group, June 2009
Asbestos disease round table, Post Magazine, October 2009