Many professional negligence claims arise out of the mishandling of personal injury claims. In this seminar, Aneurin Moloney, Helena Drage and Jasmine Murphy will guide you through how to avoid the elephant traps by covering the following topics:
Liability:
• Missing limitation and under-settlement
• Limitation arguments
• Failure to mitigate and pursuing the original defendant
• Scope of the duty and standard of care
• Lessons to be learned from Perry v Raleys Solicitors
Quantum:
• Loss of a chance
• Timing of likely settlement/trial
• Retrospective valuations
• Late evidence/worsening of claimant’s condition
• Deductions from the award in the personal injury claim
• Interest
Pre-action, tactics and disclosure:
• Using the Protocol to your advantage
• Letters of claim/response
• Disclosure
• Evidence
• Settlement
Programme
17:00: Registration
17:30: Presentations
19:00: Drinks and Canapés
