Dan specialises in the fields of personal injury, clinical negligence and insurance law. He undertakes the full range of personal injury work, but his core areas of expertise are employer’s liability, occupational disease, construction industry accidents, product liability and road traffic law.
Dan often acts in high value claims involving severe injury. He has particular experience of brain injury cases and fatal accidents. He also does contract work, primarily sale of goods and insurance, with a focus on policy coverage disputes.
Cases in which Dan has recently been involved, acting as either sole or junior counsel, include Hawley v Luminar Leisure [2006] IRLR 817 – vicarious liability for temporary deemed employees and meaning of “accidental bodily injury” in public liability policy; Skidmore v MOD – high value fatal claim arising from Navy helicopter crash off Virginia; Piednoir v Vision Security – spinal cord injury caused by doorman’s use of full nelson; Marley v BA – manual handling liability in respect of aircraft stowage facilities; Gower-Smith v Hampshire LTL 8/7/2008 – failure to train as to work equipment.
