Personal Injury: Mainly Defendant

About

Provided by BTO Solicitors LLP

We are one of, if not the largest, independent Scottish practice within the personal injury defender market.  We are instructed across the entire spectrum of personal injury work, ranging from pre-litigation advice, through to taking cases to the Supreme Court. 

Our team, which includes a number of solicitor advocates and accredited mediators, handles the full range of personal injury work for insurers, brokers, claims management companies and self-insured organisations.  We provide clear, concise advice, consistently deliver claims savings, and are adept at reducing claims lifecycles and minimising claims spend.

Our team has wide-ranging expertise, and is particularly well regarded for its experience in catastrophic injury, disease, abuse, product liability and fraudulent claims.  We act for a wide range of insurers across the UK.

Recent work highlights:

• Defending a multi-national power company in a £16million public liability claim for damages arising from a fall from two stacked portacabins where the pursuer was rendered tetraplegic.
• £8million road traffic case where the pursuer, a self-employed land and renewables consultant, sustained catastrophic injuries including tetraplegia.
• £4.5million Court of Session action arising out of an accident on a construction site, resulting in chronic pain issues to high earning self-employed pursuer.
• AIG - £2.7million Court action arising from an accident at work, in which the pursuer suffered a serious crush injury.