Carolyn Plummer

Full Profile

Carolyn Plummer joined Clyde & Co to provide forensic accounting assistance quantifying and critiquing loss of earnings and pension loss claims in personal injury, clinical negligence, fatal accident and lost years claims having over 25 years' experience in this area.

Carolyn is an experienced Expert Witness with particular expertise dealing with complex remuneration packages, Public Sector pension schemes and owner/managed businesses. She has also reported on UK cases involving overseas claimants and UK claimants working abroad.

Carolyn's other forensic accounting experience includes business interruption and loss of profits claims, financial investigations, matrimonial valuations and professional negligence claims against accountants and personal injury lawyers.

Carolyn is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) (qualified 1989), and a member of the ICAEW's Forensic and Expert Witness Group and the ICAEW’s Share Valuation Group.

Experience

• Reducing £40,000+ loss of earnings to £nil following a detailed review of the accounting records confirming no payments to subcontractors, and employed staff were furloughed, during the relevant times.
• Using mileage details on MOT certificates and service invoices to demonstrate the Claimant was travelling significantly more than claimed post-accident effectively eliminating 80% of their loss of earnings claim.
• Identifying the Claimant (in the Public Sector) would have lost their ‘protected pay’ status had they retired and returned to work as claimed, substantially reducing their loss of earnings and pension.
• Eliminating a five-figure loss based on forced sale of the Claimant’s business.  The due diligence couldn’t have been completed in the timescale and investigations proved the sale process started before the accident.
• Past notable cases include a fatal accident claim heard in the Singapore Supreme Court and Home Office cases for wrongful imprisonment involving substantial loss of earnings and pensions.