Litigation and risk matters, in every industry sector
No matter what business you are involved in, it involves operational risks. We are here to help you deal with the outcome in the best way possible.
Our Insurance & Risk team is one of Scotland’s largest and leading insurance practices, providing a specialist, one-stop service to meet the needs of every client.
We provide legal advice on complex insurance, litigation and risk matters for corporate clients in every sector, including some of the UK’s largest private companies, as well as public sector organisations and the insurance industry.
We offer a complete service, incorporating both contentious and non-contentious experience, and provide extensive technical expertise in insurance law and risk management.
The team also deals with pursuing or defending all aspects of claims, including employers’ liability, public liability and road traffic claims.
Taking a collaborative approach ensures their clients are given accurate assessments of the prospects of success at every stage, and the costs likely to be recovered or incurred.
As part of one of Scotland’s largest independent commercial law firms, we have access to the full range of expertise from our colleagues working in every sector.
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Elizabeth Mitchell
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Our services
Representing the corporate world in Scotland and beyond on difficult insurance and liability risk issues requires specialist knowledge of employment, consumer and contract law, health and safety legislation, fraud claims, property law, personal injury, probate and criminal law.
Our team brings together practitioners with in-depth practical legal experience and expertise in key disciplines.
Our services include:
- Complex claims litigation & dispute resolution
- Contractual Issues
- Employers’ & occupiers’ liability
- Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Fraud
- Health & safety
- Indemnity
- Insurance contracts
- Medical negligence
- Policy interpretation and placement
- Road traffic accidents
Harper Macleod LLP’s "organised" team "knows how to investigate claims" and is well equipped to represent its private client base in fatal claims and catastrophic injuries cases.
THE LEGAL 500 2018
Harper Macleod LLP "keeps clients well informed at all times" and "knows how to investigate claims and push them through to litigation". The team "provides clear and effective advice" on road traffic accident claims, alongside employers’ and public liability cases, asbestos-related disease and other industrial disease work.
THE LEGAL 500 2018
Work examples
Employer’s liability – injured member of staff
Acting for a retail outlet defending a claim where a member of staff fell from a wooden plinth within the course of her employment and sustained an injury to her neck and leg settling the claim on the best terms possibly avoiding the need for litigation. We also successfully defended a claim brought by an employee who tripped over a goal net whilst seeking to attract the attention of a player on the sport’s field.
Public liability
Defending an action for a large retail company brought by a member of the public following an injury which resulted in early retirement . We settled the case on a split liability basis in favour of our client.
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