Chris Fletcher

Experience

• I have worked on aspects of long and short tail occupational disease claims, including work-related stress and bullying and harassment claims often involving complex cross-over with Employment Tribunal matters. I also work on asbestos-related disease and occupational cancers claims, acting for insurers and corporate clients, as well as providing policy coverage advice.
• I have extensive experience in advising corporate clients faced with legacy occupational disease liability difficulties and project work aimed at scoping potential cancer UK liabilities for UK clients.
• I also advise insurers and as a speaker at events on strategic issues covering themes across emerging risks such the developing landscape in harassment claims, psychiatric claims following data protection breaches, nanotechnology and e-cigarettes and response to government consultation exercises relating to proposed changes in the law.
• I am dual-qualified in Scotland and England & Wales, qualifying as a solicitor in Scotland in 1996 and in England & Wales in 1998, going on to train and subsequently work with the insurance liability team at Dundas & Wilson CS in Edinburgh. I then joined a national commercial and insurance firm in Manchester in 2000, becoming partner in 2004 and head of disease litigation in 2008. I joined BLM as a partner in March 2010.

Membership/appointments

• Dual qualified in English and Scottish jurisdictions, and experience of practice in each.’
• I am a Director of Global Insurance Law Connect, the international insurance law firm network of which BLM is a founder member.
• I am a member of the International Bar Association