Dan specialises in the fields of personal injury, clinical negligence and insurance law. He undertakes the full range of personal injury work, but core areas of expertise are employer’s liability, occupational disease, construction industry accidents, product liability and motor insurance. Dan often acts in high value claims involving severe injury and has particular experience in relation to brain injury and fatal accident cases.
Dan's insurance work has a focus on policy coverage disputes. He also does general contract work and cases concerning civil costs.
Chambers & Partners 2012 lists Dan as a Leading Junior in personal injury.
Cases in which Dan has been involved include: Hawley v Luminar Leisure [2006] EWCA Civ 18 – vicarious liability for temporary deemed employees and meaning of “accidental bodily injury” in public liability policy; Skidmore v MOD [2008] – high value fatal claim arising from Navy helicopter crash off Virginia; Jones v QBE Insurance[2009] - policy coverage dispute on tetraplegia claim; Hughes v Chanel Ltd [2010] - stress claim by Chanel's UK head of training; Tafa v Gilling-Smith [2011] EWHC 1302 - personal liability of company director for construction site fall causing paraplegia.
