Daniel Thomas

Fraud unit/validation team.

Daniel has a wide range of experience specialising in fraudulent casualty, first party and motor claims. Dan represents a number of leading insurance companies dealing with a wide range of matters arising from suspicious claims, incuding large loss and fraudulent exaggeration as well as claims made under consumer and commercial insurance contracts. Daniel regularly advises upon complex indemnity issues, policy interpretation including invoking and declining claims based on a “fraud clause”, the application and interpretation of the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 and the Insurance Act 2015 dealing with the pre-contractual duty of disclosure and the insurer’s remedies when presented with a fraudulent claim. Daniel is part of the management team of the Fraud Practice Group and supervises a team of lawyers handing casualty and motor fraud claims.

Tupton Hall School, Chesterfield; Birmingham University (LLB Law and Politics, 2:1); College of Law, Birmingham (LPC, distinction).