Stephen King > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
1 St James Court
WHITEFRIARS
NORWICH
NR3 1RU
England
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Stephen King
Work Department
Insurance.
Position
Admitted as a solicitor in 1986. Joined Mills & Reeve in 1989, becoming a partner in 1993. Lead role in the development of the firm’s defence liability work in the health sector. Managing a respected and acknowledged national team specialising in medical malpractice, product liability and health sector liability work. The work sits within the firm’s general insurance subsector which is part of the diverse work of the wider insurance group. A previous member of the Editorial Board of the Sweet and Maxwell publication ‘Journal of Personal Injury Law’. He has written and spoken widely on his subject area. His clients are insurers of risks arising in the health sector, from clinical trials and product manufacturing to hospital groups, care providers and the medical professions and their insurers. He oversees the work of the firm’s claims handling unit, or CHU ( a TPA offering), and its work on the claims solutions the firm offers to its insurer and corporate healthcare clients. He also participates in the firm’s 24/7 emergency out of hours helpline ‘Mills & Reeve First Response’.
Often advising on coverage issues, his work and that of his team includes class actions, public enquiries and judicial review as well as catastrophic injury cases, and high profile cases that are novel or repercussive in terms of reputational protection.
Career
Trained Hegarty & Co; admitted 1986; Mills & Reeve 1989 to date; partner 1993. Former editorial board member of the Journal of Personal Injury Law.
Languages
Spanish.
Education
St Wilfrid’s School, Featherstone, West Yorkshire; Bristol Polytechnic BA (Hons) Law.
Leisure
Cycling, sailing, ancient history, music.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
(Leading individuals)The Norwich office of Mills & Reeve LLP
has a strong medical malpractice group that works with colleagues in Manchester and Birmingham as a key part of the firm’s national full-service health sector offering. Focused purely on clinical negligence indemnity coverage and defence, the team acts for a broad range of healthcare providers in complex and high-value claims. Health and insurance partner Stephen King leads the practice, in which senior associate Matthew Wilson is a key adviser to insurers and their insured on coverage issues, and defending claims against plastic and orthopaedic surgeons.
East Anglia > Insurance > Professional negligence
Mills & Reeve LLP has a specialist professional indemnity, insurance and financial disputes practice based in Norwich, which demonstrates ‘a thoroughly professional approach to the complexity that is modern litigation‘. The firm acts for financial and accounting, construction and clinical professionals, as well as brokers. It also provides in-depth advice on coverage and policies. Practice head Neil Davies and consultant Stephen King are the main contacts, while senior associates Matthew Wilson and Sophie Briggs, and manager of the claims handling unit Sue Surridge play key roles in the practice. They count Countrywide, Travelers, Aviva Life & Pensions and Key Group among their clients.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Professional negligence East Anglia > Insurance
- Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant East Anglia > Insurance
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