Personal Injury, Industrial Disease and Regulatory

Hill Dickinson has a dedicated team of lawyers who are specialists in Personal Injury & Regulatory work in the Shipping, Transport and Offshore Industries based at its offices in London and the North West of England. The teams main areas of work involves defending on behalf of owners, employers and operators, small, large and multi-party claims arising from accidents or industrial diseases onboard ships, offshore installations, shipyards, ports, public factories  and other places of work.

The personal injury team specialises in marine matters and has an unrivalled reputation in this field particularly in relation to dealing with passenger and crew issues arising from minor incidents on passenger ships right through to major disasters. We have also acted in multi action litigation arising from personal injury and illnesses such as Novovirus and Salmonella, and high value E coli 0157.

The team is able to deal with every aspect of an accident starting from on site investigation and assistance, dealing with the various investigation authorities, handling all proceedings including:

• Inquests
• Civil proceedings
• HSE
• MCA
• Police
• PLA prosecutions
• MAIB and coroners investigations
• Judicial reviews
• Public enquiries

In casualties a member of this team will often attend on site with one of our legally qualified master mariners enabling all aspects of a situation to be dealt with effectively.

We also provide proactive advice and training on health and safety issues including drafting of accident reporting training and procedures, loss prevention and risk assessment, drafting of contractual indemnities. In house training is provided to crew, officers and management.

Another area of related expertise includes advice on the Package Travel Regulations 1992, where we have specialist experience in the drafting of Booking Conditions and carriers Conditions of Carriage.

Recent headline cases we have acted on include:

CALYPSO
SEA DIAMOND
EXPLORER