The ‘technically gifted’ team at Weightmans LLP, notable for its longstanding working relationship with the MIB, has broad experience across a range of catastrophic injury work. Claims director Rob Williams leads the team. David Holt specialises in non-indemnity insurance work and catastrophic injury claims, while Will Quinn covers the liability insurers’ wing of the practice, with clients including Zurich and AIG. Also key are brain and spinal injury expert Emerson Wallwork, and Louise Mutch, who focuses on large loss and technical claims.

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  • ‘One of the go-to northern insurance giants.’

  • ‘Will Quinn - experienced, knowledgeable, tactically astute insurance lawyer.’

  • ‘They have excelled throughout and provided me with exemplary support in high-profile litigation in the Court of Appeal and in the settlement of numerous difficult disputes.’

  • 'David Holt has stand out experience, knowing the world of RTAs and wider personal injury inside out.’

  • ‘The Weightmans team in Manchester is very strong and well regarded. They always strike me as a very modern team - always ahead of the big developments in our sector, involved in the highest profile cases and comfortable with the use of technology to improve their offering.’

  • ‘Emerson Wallwork is an outstanding solicitor - more knowledgeable and tactically sensible than most.'

  • ‘An excellent, technically gifted catastrophic injury team.’

Key clients

  • Zurich
  • Motor Insurers Bureau
  • AIG Europe
  • AXAXL Insurance
  • PwC (Chester Street Holdings)
  • Municipal Mutual Insurance
  • Ageas Insurance
  • Tesco Underwriting
  • First Central Insurance
  • InterEurope AG Insurance
  • Covea Insurance
  • Octagon Insurance
  • Travellers Insurance Co
  • HDI Global
  • Hiscox Insurance
  • Esure Insurance
  • Prometheus Insurance
  • Hastings Direct
  • Markerstudy Insurance
  • Berkshire Hathaway Speciality Insurance
  • Liberty Mutual
  • Markel Insurance
  • DCL Insurance
  • Broadspire/Crawfords
  • Protector Insurance
  • Vinci
  • Rolls Royce
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Lidl Stores
  • Nestle
  • BP
  • DHL Logistics
  • Severn Trent
  • Gallagher Bassett
  • Hundreds of Local Authorities and Police Authorities

Work highlights

  • Instructed by Markel to act on behalf of an insured care home.
  • Acting in a contributory negligence claim against a 13-year-old child in a road traffic case on behalf of the MIB.
  • Obtained a settlement on behalf of Markerstudy in the case of Stammers v Dyson.

Lawyers

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Weightmans LLP
 David is technical lead for large loss, cross border and technical motor claims, having headed up our large loss and technical team for over 20 years. He specialises in catastrophic injury claims and in MIB claims, cross border claims and non-indemnity insurance work advising insurers on policy wording and on liabilities to third parties under both the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Art 75. He has dealt with the full range of catastrophic injury claims including claims of the utmost severity, spinal injuries (paraplegics/tetraplegics), amputations and serious head injuries. David has lectured widely on technical issues and on large loss issues. He was lead lawyer for MIB in relation to the latest Uninsured and Untraced Drivers Agreements. He represented in the Supreme Court case of Moreno (2016) and on the judicial review action brought by RoadPeace challenging various aspects of the Agreements and the 1988 Act as being contrary to European law. He has been involved in many leading cases including the cases of Wigley Foster, McCall v Poulton, Nemeti v Sabre, Winrow v Hemphill, Jacobs v MIB, Howe v MIB and Marshall/Pickard v MIB and others. David has advised MIB on a full range of strategic issues. David also represented MIB in the Supreme Court case of Moreno v MIB (2016) which determined that damages were payable in accordance with the law of the country of the accident.
Weightmans LLP
 Will qualified in 1995, becoming a partner in 2000. He specialises in large loss and technical claims. He acts mainly for MIB, Zurich, AXA Corporate Solutions and Travelers and deals with a whole range of catastrophic injury claims. Will is a member of FOIL and a representative on their specialist Catastrophic Personal Injury group. He is also Client Relationship Partner for AXA Corporate Solutions.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Rob Williams

Other key lawyers

Emerson Wallwork, Will Quinn, David Holt, Louise Mutch, Andrew Steel