The Bristol-based team at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP is best known for defending complex claims, ranging from employers’ liability to catastrophic injury cases, on behalf of major players in the manufacturing, transport and public sectors. David Brown heads up the practice, focusing on brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations and fatalities. David Brown leads on occupational stress and industrial disease work. Sally Brock typically handles cases with a regulatory element.
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Key clients
- English Heritage (The English Heritage Trust)
- RATP
- MSIG UK
- LV=
- Aurorium UK Ltd
- Langley Holdings (Bergen Engines)
- AmTrust
- The Body Shop
- Blue Banana
Work highlights
- Advising a construction engineering contractor on instruction from its insurers in relation to multiple claims arising out of a tower crane collapse.
- Advising a corporate manufacturing client on jurisdictional issues arising from a claim by an employee for an occupational cancer following alleged exposure to asbestos during his employment as a ship engine engineer.
- Representing a large UK engineering contractor whose employee suffered fatal injuries when he was crushed by a military vehicle during the course of his employment.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Brown