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Suzanne Chalmers
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Position
Principal areas of practice are commercial disputes, insurance, professional negligence and personal injury claims. She acts in a wide range of commercial and contractual disputes. Her insurance work involves all types of policy dispute (non-marine). Issues have included policy wording, subrogation, non-disclosure, conditions precedent and proximate cause. She frequently acts for insurers in relation to subrogated claims arising out of damage to property. She handles claims against a broad range of professionals, in particular solicitors and barristers, construction professionals and financial advisers. Her personal injury work focuses upon cases involving severe and permanent disablement (including brain damage) or difficult issues of causation, such as the occurrence of epilepsy, stroke or psychiatric injury. Cases include: Lindesay v Lamb & Tatner [2008] EWCA Civ 1143 – scope of the duty of care owed by the drivers involved in a multiple vehicle pile up; Shinedean Ltd v Alldown Demolition (London) Ltd v AXA Insurance UK Ltd [2006] 1 WLR 2696 (CA), [2005] EWHC 2391 (TCC) – £700,000 claim by third party against insurers arising out of negligent demolition of property by a contractor. Issues included meaning and operation of claims co-operation conditions; England v Guardian Insurance [2000] Lloyds Rep IR 404 – policy claim following subsidence of property involving issues of subrogation and the extent of insurers’ rights over recoveries.
Career
Called 1995, Gray’s Inn.
Member
Commercial Bar Association; LCL & CBA; PNBA; TECBAR; PIBA.
Education
Kent College, Canterbury; Magdalen College, Oxford (1994 MA Hons).
Practice Areas
Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Personal injury - either side; Professional negligence
