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City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Compre is a global specialty reinsurance business that provides capital and liability solutionsI am a complex medmal claims handler dealing with european claims outside of our TPA's delegated authority. These claims are the most complex and highest value within our portfolios including baby brain injury claims, adult neurological injury, paraplegia and amputation injuries. I also work with our Actuarial, Value Creation and Claims Ops teams to ensure medmal perspective is delivered to those respective teams to support the business.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Weightmans is a national law firm with offices in 9 cities across the UK. I defend clinical negligence claims as panel lawyer for the NHS Resolution and other private insurers.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dolden Wallace Folick LLP are a specialty insurance law firm with offices across Canada. The firm has been recognised as one of Canada's top Insurance Defence Litigation Boutiques by the Canadian Lawyer magazine.I practiced across various specialty lines of insurance including healthcare, construction, financial and D&O. I was a member of the firm's class action practice group. I also gained experience of providing coverage opinions primarily dealing with duty to defend obligations under CGL policies.In addition I delivered medical malpractice seminars on the firm's behalf to international insurers for better understanding of the Canadian market and the challenges faced in the future.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Kennedys Law LLP is a global insurance dispute resolution law firm with over 50 offices, including associated offices, worldwide. The UK Healthcare team is ranked in the highest tier by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 publications for its clinical negligence practice. I act for both public and private medical insurance bodies and on behalf of hospitals and clinicians in claims of medical malpractice. I run a caseload of over 30 litigated matters of varying complexity and value but typically my workload is catastrophic injury with compensation reserves exceeding 8 figures. This includes maximum severity child brain injury (including cerebral palsy), adult brain injury, developmental delay, cauda equina syndrome claims and lower limb amputation cases.In addition to running this caseload, I supervise an apprentice and hold a mentoring role for newly qualified Solicitors. I have seconded with both NHS Resolution and by covering the Head of Legal Services at one of our Hospital’s legal departments. I have represented Hospitals at inquest.REPORTED CASE: Muller v King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 128.

London, England, United Kingdom

Hugh Cartwright & Amin is a niche west end law firm with a focus on servicing high net worth individuals and small/medium sized companies. On qualification in 2010, I practiced in the civil/commercial litigation team.My caseload comprised of a number of areas of law and included: acting for companies in breach of contract claims; acting for an airline in termination of aviation leases; acting for a film production in protecting its intellectual property; breach of tenant covenants; intestacy claims. I worked on the reported Supreme Court case of Marley V Rawlings [2014] UKSC 2 but left the firm before it was heard.REPORTED CASES: West Is West Distribution Ltd v Icon Film Distribution Ltd [2013] EWHC 1181 (Comm); Wokuri v Kassam [2012] EWHC 105 (Ch); Patel v K&J Restaurants Limited [2010] EWCA Civ 1211; Chopra v Bindra [2009] EWCA Civ 203

Master Of Laws (Llm), Legal Aspects Of Medical Practice

Course modules: (1) Consent; (2) Negligence/Malpractice; (3) Mental Health and Capacity; (4) Genetics.

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law