I’m a solicitor who defends negligence claims - AMA

[OolieMacdoolie]

I’m a solicitor who defends professional and (occasionally) medical negligence claims. Ask me anything!

What's your opinion of insurers defending medical negligence claims? My late partner was involved in high-value claims and worked alongside a number of solicitors who he praised highly.

Do you feel any guilt when you successfully defend someone why is clearly guilty (i.e. has clearly behaved in a negligent way which has resulted in significant harm)

I don't want to derail the OPs thread but I am a lawyer for the NHS defending med neg cases and I'm taken aback by some of the responses on here!

I’m about to speak to speak with a solicitor re a claim. When a claimant submits a claim can the defence see a claimants assets, tax affairs or benefits awarded eg UC, Housing benefit and PIP?

thanks in advance

Do you have any repeat clients? If you do, do you question whether they’re actually competent in what they do and will you have to report them to whichever professional body they belong to? Or will the professional body already be aware of their conduct?

Possibly not quite within the remit of your thread - but a friend of mine is pursuing a claim for injury against the owners of a sports club. Their faulty equipment was the problem. The defendants/insurers have obtained (without seeking or having consent) my friend's full medical records, back to childhood, from the hospital that conducted some of the scans. Is it common for defendants to do this sort of thing, in spite of the evidence being (I assume) inadmissible, and for hospitals to produce the information without making sufficient checks?