Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP‘s corporate claims team is instructed by corporate clients and is sought after for high-value and complex matters across the region. Regularly acting on matters born of serious injury or fatal incidents, the team is led by Nicola Lashmar, senior partner at the Ipswich office who focuses her practice on crisis management and assisting with high-value, sensitive injury claims, particularly where reputation or brand are at stake. Louise Bland is also adept in strategic and sensitive matters, including group actions. Qualified mediator Paul Coppin has experience of multijurisdictional claims, and Elisa Vanhinsbergh has extensive expertise in handling industrial disease, RTAs, public liability, and employers’ liability claims. Litigator Grace Peake is an additional contact to note.

Kennedys remains the firm of choice for the NHS across East Anglia, with NHS Resolution continuing to allocate the region to the firm. The team works with its members on acute, mental health, community and primary practitioner care, acting in clinical negligence claims that range from minor injuries to those with the utmost severity. Robert Tobin heads the healthcare team in Cambridge, drawing on 25 years’ experience of clinical negligence defence litigation. Tobin’s experience handling severe claims concerns patients developing cerebral palsy from birth injuries; neurological injuries; neonatal deaths; psychiatric injuries, and emergency medicine. Amanda Mead is a client partner for a number of NHS trusts in the region and oversees a team that manages cases of all values and complexity, both pre-action and litigated. Camilla Long is also an experienced figure, specialising in primary care claims.

Mills & Reeve LLP fields a nationwide medical malpractice offering that includes several lawyers based at its Norwich office. The team routinely assists insurers with coverage issues, and has experience defending professional insureds. Contacts to note include Matthew Wilson, who defends both individual and multi-party claims; claimant personal injury and medical malpractice expert Nathan Jones; Peter Lennon; and Claire Loveday.