Steven Coles

Personal Injury

Selected Cases

• Advising insurers on issues of policy cover, waiver, election and estoppel in relation to a workplace injury claim for about £250,000 (2020)
• Advising defendant’s liability insurers on policy cover and misrepresentation / non-disclosure in relation to a fatal accident claim against the defendant for £800,000 (2019)
• Acting for defendant and insurers in relation to a contribution claim against defendant contractor by employers for liability to their employee for psychiatric injuries resulting from a violent robbery where defective installation of security measures by the defendant blamed (2018)
• Advising on the extent of policy cover under a personal accident policy in a case of catastrophic personal injuries suffered in an accident on holiday abroad (2018)
• Advising on policy liability in respect of healthcare officials arising out of alleged mis-prescription of drugs (2018)
• Advising on policy liability and related issues in relation to a personal injury accident at work where the claimant was a close relative of the defendant employer (2018)
• Advising insurers on issues of co-insurance / double insurance in relation to a personal injury claim (2017)
• Acting for defendant and insurers in a contribution claim by employers who settled their employee’s claim for permanent injury to eye caused by failure of pressurised plumbing component (2017)
• Advising insurers on apportionment between defendants in a mesothelioma claim (2017)
• Advising insurers on co-insurance / double insurance issues arising out of the costs of defending manslaughter and health and safety prosecution (2017)
• Acting for defendant developers and their insurers in relation to a contribution claim by contractor in respect of injury to several employees from hazardous materials on building site (2017)
• Advising insurers on policy coverage in relation to pollution-related claims and policy exceptions, in relation to a claim for injury by Legionnaires’ Disease (2017)
• Acting for claimant in relation to a claim for serious leg injuries arising out of a motorcycle accident (2014)
• Acting for defendant’s insurers in fatal traffic road accident claim (2014)
• Acting for defendant’s insurers in claim for £7 Million for brain damage caused by road traffic accident (2010)
• Claim for personal injury from a tripping accident in a lift, with contribution claims between building owners, lessees, and lift maintenance company (2010)
• Claim for injuries resulting in debilitating complex regional pain syndrome (2009)
• Appearing at trial in the case of Telling v OCS Services (2008), referred to in the White Book under CPR Rule 14, unreported but available on Lawtel – interlocutory decision on compromise of claim by pre-action admission
• Claim for serious burns in factory accident (2008)
• Clinical negligence claim, child lost both feet and part of a lung from life-threatening infection; issue over the standard of emergency treatment received (2008)
• Clinical negligence case, neurological injuries from cauda equina syndrome after surgery (2007)

Qualifications

• MA (Cantab)

Memberships

• Commercial Bar Association
• London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
• Personal Injury Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Technology & Construction Bar Association