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Personal Injury: Mainly Claimant: Industrial Disease - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
Larcomes fields an established industrial disease practice based in Portsmouth. The team is best known for its expert knowledge and representation of claimants in mesothelioma and other asbestos-related disease claims. It frequently represents claimants who had been employed in local dockyards and shipbuilding industries.
Strengths
The team at Larcomes are efficient, knowledgeable and friendly.
Notable practitioners
Richard Hopgood heads the industrial disease team. He is recognised for his expertise in industrial disease claims such as mesothelioma and asbestos-related cases, especially for those formerly employed in dockyards.
Richard Hopgood is outstanding in all areas.
Richard is so good and really knows his stuff when it comes to cases with dock workers. He has a wealth of experience, knows how to get best evidence and has a very calm and reassuring manner.
He has an encyclopedic knowledge of asbestos, particularly in industrial settings on the south coast.