Your challenges
The emergence of new treatments and therapies, and the associated call for improved regulation, requires innovative insurance solutions. Whether you require assistance in the drafting of policy wording, interpretation of terms and conditions or advice on coverage, you will need lawyers who understand clinical practice and its statutory and professional regulation.
You may be dealing with claims for clinical malpractice, disciplinary or regulatory investigations. You will want to engage lawyers who have a proven track record of acting for the clinical professions and their insurers, who are able to talk intelligently about clinical practice and procedures and are alive to issues of risk management and containment. There may be overlapping issues such as product liability or product recall.
Whatever you are facing, early engagement and proactive resolution is what you will be looking for, with an eye on the protection of clinical reputations and business relationships. You want intelligent, articulate people to work with you, committed to outstanding client service and focused on achieving an outcome that meets your business, commercial and professional objectives.
Achieving your ambitions
With over 20 years’ experience of acting for the clinical professions and their insurers, our insurance group sits within a nationally based practice of excellent lawyers operating across a range of professional and other insurance and healthcare related disciplines.
We understand the complex and extensive statutory and regulatory regimes affecting the world of healthcare and clinical practice. We are involved with a broad spectrum of health and clinical issues arising, for example, from large suppliers of health related products to claims against the sole practitioner providing therapeutic advice at a single locality. Our specialists have experience of all manner of clinical untoward incidents, from catastrophic injury, to surgical mishap, misdiagnoses and pharmaceutical reactions.
Our clients seek our investigatory and advocacy services in addition to our dispute resolution skills and want to achieve prompt and cost effective outcomes. In turn, they will rely on our ability to promote early engagement with interested parties, identify the issues and offer practical and creative advice in order to mitigate the effects of clinical malpractice.
The strength you need
Our excellent insurance lawyers work as an integral part of your team, from offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Norwich,
Lawyers you can trust
Acting for around 40 Lloyds and London market insurers and reinsurers, and 130 other healthcare bodies, we are applauded by the legal directories for the quality of our service provision to clients and cost effectiveness of our output. We aim to be more than lawyers advising clients on a dispute – we are trusted business advisers with tried and tested resources at your disposal.