Clyde & Co

Catastrophic injury

• Andrew is a partner in the catastrophic injury team specialising in catastrophic and large loss claims.
• Within BLM he leads the Brain Injury Subject Matter Group together with a number of our specialists which focuses on trends, developments and best practice in handling these claims
• He is a named individual for a number of insurers on their select panels to handle their highest value cases and currently manages a portfolio of claims with a combined value in excess of £150million.
• Andrew has many years experience acting exclusively for insurers, corporate policy holders and local authorities handling claims of the utmost severity and complexity.
• His caseload comprises public liability, employers’ liability and motor claims, especially brain injuries, severe spinal injuries and amputations with expertise in handling infant brain injury claims.
• He also has experience with insolvency (corporate and recovery) and professional negligence as well as disease claims.  
• Andrew has written a number of articles commenting on legal issues and developments and regularly provides seminars and training for insurers, policyholders and clients.
• Aside from supervising and mentoring team members he manages a team of junior lawyers who assist on cases.

Trained Cobbett Leak Almond; qualified 1992; Mace & Jones 1992-97; James Chapman (now Halliwells) 1997-2007, partner 2002; partner BLM 2007 to date.

FOIL

St Hugh’s College, Nottingham; Manchester University (1989 LLB Hons); Chester College of Law (1990).

Reading, walking, music, art galleries, Formula 1, boxing.