Cost of Accidents and Insurance

24 September 08

Venue - Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, Steele Close, Eastleigh, SO53 3AA

Start Time - 1400

Speaker - Claire Howard, Head of Multi-Track Personal Injury Team, Blake Lapthorne.

Claire qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and has worked within the field of personal injury for the last 14 years at Blake Lapthorn. Claire has acted for both Claimants and Defendants throughout her legal career and has the unique ability to see claims from both sides. She specialises in Accidents at Work, Industrial Disease and Acquired Brain Injury, although she has dealt with all types of claims from trips and slips to falls from height, chemical exposure, defective equipment and vibrating machinery. She has represented interested parties at inquests and liaised with the HSE. She has given training and advised clients on how to improve their claims record/ accident recording/ reporting and claims investigation. Claire heads the Multi track team and currently deals with claims of utmost severity. Her current caseload (for both Claimants and Defendants) includes fatal accident cases as a result of accidents at work and exposure to asbestos as well as spinal injuries, amputations and very severe brain injury.

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