Lawyers Advising Market-Leading Insurers Across a Full Range of Motor Claims

As a leading provider of legal services to the defendant motor insurance market, our motor team handles thousands of cases each year. We advise prominent motor insurance companies on claims ranging from outsourced, pre-litigation, and non-injury matters to complex, multi-track personal injury cases. 

Our expertise spans cross-border road transport, emergency services motor claims, fleet risks, indemnity and coverage advice, motoring prosecutions, and both pre- and post-litigation motor claims. Credit Hire claims remain a persistent challenge for insurers, driven by market strategies, fraud, legislative changes, and external factors. Our experienced team excels in handling these claims, helping clients navigate a fast-moving, complex, and adversarial market. 

We deliver high-quality, cost-effective services while tackling challenges like claims inflation, leakage, and fraud. Managing high volumes of work and insurance claims, we use a customised case management system tailored to meet each insurer’s specific needs. Using an intelligence-led approach and a best-in-class Case Management System (CMS), we save insurers millions on indemnity spend and achieve market-leading results across key performance indicators. 

Our fraud and criminal defence expertise offers insurers and insureds a full range of services from a single provider, streamlining procurement and reducing costs. We work closely with clients to ensure cases are “litigation ready,” resolve aged debt, and negotiate agreements, all while offering training and actively lobbying for changes to the Pre-Action Protocols. We leverage the latest Management Information (MI) and business intelligence technology to identify market trends and guide decision-making with Artificial Intelligence, recommending tailored courses of action based on defined parameters. This proactive approach helps control indemnity spend and reduce cycle times.

Additionally, our legal specialists continually monitor developments in the motor insurance landscape, actively participating in consultations to influence and shape the law.

 

The team are extremely knowledgeable and are able to handle the wide variety of claims we are exposed to.

Chambers & Partners 2020

They respond in a timely manner” and provide “an efficient and good service.
 

Chambers & Partners 2019

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Our Motor Work

  • All
  • North America
  • UK & Europe
  • Action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam

    Advising Dutch insurers in relation to an action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam on the care and Court of Protection element of a UK national's brain injury claim.

    Netherlands

    Catastrophic road traffic accident claim

    Successfully defending to trial a serious road traffic accident claim brought by a Claimant who was rendered paraplegic in the accident.

    United Kingdom

    Defence of a paraplegic claim incurred during a police chase

    Acting for an insurer in relation to the defence of a paraplegic claim incurred during a police chase. Advising on the defence of joint enterprise volenti together with complex issues as to the claimant's knowledge of the driver's intoxication, drug abuse and complex issues regarding the causative relevance of the claimant's failure to wear a seat belt.

    United Kingdom

    Ford Explorer rollover deaths

    Obtaining a defence verdict for the tire manufacturer in the first verdict involving a US Ford Explorer rollover death with a tire tread separation

    United States

    Grand Am racing event decapitation

    Securing a defence verdict on behalf of race car component manufacturer in a USD 60 million wrongful death claim arising from the death of a race car driver during a qualifying run at a Grand Am racing event

    United States
  • Grand Am racing event decapitation

    Securing a defence verdict on behalf of race car component manufacturer in a USD 60 million wrongful death claim arising from the death of a race car driver during a qualifying run at a Grand Am racing event

    United States

    Ford Explorer rollover deaths

    Obtaining a defence verdict for the tire manufacturer in the first verdict involving a US Ford Explorer rollover death with a tire tread separation

    United States
  • Action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam

    Advising Dutch insurers in relation to an action pursued in the High Court of Amsterdam on the care and Court of Protection element of a UK national's brain injury claim.

    Netherlands

    Catastrophic road traffic accident claim

    Successfully defending to trial a serious road traffic accident claim brought by a Claimant who was rendered paraplegic in the accident.

    United Kingdom

    Defence of a paraplegic claim incurred during a police chase

    Acting for an insurer in relation to the defence of a paraplegic claim incurred during a police chase. Advising on the defence of joint enterprise volenti together with complex issues as to the claimant's knowledge of the driver's intoxication, drug abuse and complex issues regarding the causative relevance of the claimant's failure to wear a seat belt.

    United Kingdom

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Our Motor team

Mark Hemsted
Mark Hemsted

Partner

Mike Dobson
Mike Dobson

Partner

Vikki Melville
Vikki Melville

Partner

Sina Bahadoran
Sina Bahadoran

Partner

Alison Beanum
Alison Beanum

Partner

Harry Boyle
Harry Boyle

Partner

Andrew Constable
Andrew Constable

Partner

Louis-Philippe Constant
Louis-Philippe Constant

Partner

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Casualty

Our team is built on scale, expertise and a new vision for technology. With scale, comes the largest data set in the casualty space, providing more complete answers and better management information.

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