The obligatory nature of employers’ liability insurance means that it affects all employers. For this reason we offer a fully integrated process of referral of claims to specialist teams as well as a risk assessment and profiling service.
Our employers' liability specialists deliver pre and
post-litigation handling to the full range of insurers,
brokers, liability adjusters, loss adjusters, companies and
individuals across the country. Comprehensive yet cost effective
management of employers’ liability claims is always the
priority.
We have a long history of acting on behalf of corporate insureds
and multiple insurers. Close liaison with our employment and
regulatory teams means we offer streamlined but effective insurance
services.
Core services include:
- Complex dispute resolution
- Catastrophic claims and litigation handling
- Fatal accident management
- Disaster management
- Conduct of lead actions
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Rehabilitation
- Management of periodical payment issues
- Policy dispute
- Policy interpretation
- Regulatory impact
Recent case studies
- Establishing in the Court of Appeal that interpretation of a Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations in relation to an automotive case did not impose a strict liability based upon the facts of that case. Utilising arguments of reasonable practicability a 50% apportionment of liability between the parties was achieved.
- Defeating a series of upper limb claims relating to a national transmissions business thus preventing the potential for a ‘floodgate’ of such claims which would have resulted in multi-million pound payments of costs and damages.
- Defending a series of clinical exposure claims involving burns to the skin and eyes as well as damages to more than 50% of lung function. Claims involved young claimants some of whom were not expected to return to employment in the median term. Complex issues arose not only in relation to the apportionment of liability between the occupier of the premises and an employment agency, but also significant issues on quantum and multi-disciplinary medical causation issues.
- Defending a public authority in relation to
a stress claim pursued by a Social Worker seconded to a police
investigation relating to abuse of children. Maintaining a
full defence to the claim ensured that the claimant failed to
establish either a foreseeable injury or that the injury claimed to
have been suffered was caused by the secondment. Full judgment in
favour of the defendant together with full costs.
