BTO Solicitors LLP

BTO Solicitors LLP

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BTO Solicitors LLP - Personal Injury

Wendy Thomson

Wendy Thomson

Partner A Civil Solicitor Advocate with over 20 years’ experience of acting for Defenders in a wide range of insurance cases and for commercial and private clients in commercial and civil litigation. Acting predominantly as solicitor advocate for insurance clients for last 15 years. Personal injury practice includes a range of industrial disease cases as head of team as well as other employers’ liability cases, public liability cases and road traffic claims, including high value and fatal claims. Also has experience of cases in the Commercial court. Has acted for commercial and private clients in a wide range of commercial disputes and civil matters, including interdict and defamation cases. Wendy is one of the few Solicitor Advocates to appear regularly in the Court of Session. She conducts settlement negotiations and pre-trial meetings. Regularly instructed in cases against senior and junior counsel. Extensive knowledge of Court of Session practice and procedure and excellent reputation as an insurance litigator in the Court of Session.
Claire White

Claire White

Partner Claire is a Partner in BTO’s Insurance team, and has over 20 years’ experience in Insurance litigation, acting for insurers and self-insured clients as Defenders in both the Court of Session and Sheriff Courts. Claire joined BTO in 2008 and has spent her entire career as a litigator instructed by many of the UK’s largest insurers. Claire is vastly experienced in dealing with all types of EL, PL and complex Motor claims, including catastrophic injuries; product liability claims, particularly injuries arising out of allegedly defective medical devices; clinical negligence; Health & Safety prosecutions arising out of workplace injuries and fatalities; marine accidents; and claims arising out of large scale incidents such as water pollution and gas leaks.  She also often advises insurers on policy issues. Claire has a particular interest in claims where fraud is suspected, chronic pain, psychiatric injuries, and has also successfully defended a number of workplace stress / bullying claims.
Lewis Richardson

Lewis Richardson

Lewis is an Associate within BTO’s insurance team, where he focuses on defending motor, employers and public liability claims in the Sheriff Court. These include a number of claims arising from asbestos exposure. Lewis trained solely in litigation at a firm specialising in insurance defence work. Upon qualifying he moved to a firm where he appeared regularly in Edinburgh Sheriff Court as local agent in both procedural and contentious matters. He has also conducted Proofs, Opposed Motions and Appeals on behalf of his own clients in courts throughout Scotland. In addition to his Sheriff Court work Lewis has experience dealing with a wide variety of Court of Session matters. He volunteers as a tutor at the Mock Court competition for Scottish secondary schools.
Jennifer Stewart

Jennifer Stewart

Senior Associate Jennifer has specialised in personal injury litigation since qualifying as a solicitor in 2004 and has over fifteen years of extensive experience in the field of industrial disease including noise induced hearing loss, hand arm vibration, silicosis and occupational asthma claims She has a range of experience dealing with the investigation of claims from the initial pre litigation stage to final conclusion either by negotiated settlement or by raising and handling court proceedings. She has dealt primarily with asbestos related disease claims for the last eleven years acting for pursuers and defenders in actions raised in the Court of Session and Sheriff court which has given her an in depth knowledge of the issues that these types of cases involve. In particular, she has specialised in high value cases in which fatal injuries have been sustained.

Deals

  • Defending a multi-national power company in a £16million public liability claim for damagesarising from a fall from two stacked portacabins where the pursuer was rendered tetraplegic.
  • £8millionroad traffic case where the pursuer, a self-employed land and renewables consultant, sustained catastrophic injuries including tetraplegia.
  • £4.5millionCourt of Session action arising out of an accident on a construction site, resulting in chronic pain issues to high earning self-employed pursuer.
  • AIG - £2.7million Court action arising from an accident at work, in which the pursuer, who had previously suffered traumatic amputation of two fingers, suffered a serious crush injury to his other hand.

Team Services

We are one of, if not the largest, independent Scottish practice within the personal injury defender market.  We are instructed across the entire spectrum of personal injury work, ranging from pre-litigation advice, through to taking cases to the Supreme Court.

Our team, which includes a number of solicitor advocates and accredited mediators, handles the full range of personal injury work for insurers, brokers, claims management companies and self-insured organisations.  We provide clear, concise advice, consistently deliver claims savings, and are adept at reducing claims lifecycles and minimising claims spend.

Our team has wide-ranging expertise, and is particularly well regarded for its experience in catastrophic injury, disease, abuse, product liability and fraudulent claims.  We act for a wide range of insurers across the UK.