Claire Collins

Experience

• I am a partner at BLM in the catastrophic injury team.
• I deal with a wide range of defendant personal injury claims.
• I have over 18 years’ experience dealing with large and complex claims arising out of road traffic accidents in the UK and abroad.
• I have a strong technical background with many years’ experience dealing with high value, high profile personal injury claims for many leading insurers.
• I am regularly instructed to act on spinal cord, brain injury, amputation and other complex claims.
• I have a specific interest in subtle brain injury claims.
• I have also mentored individual claims controllers at various insurers in their personal, technical and professional development.
• I am named as a “Leading Individual” in The Legal 500 (2018) in Defendant personal injury.

Significant reported cases

• Page v Smith (1996) CA (No 2)
• Tinsley v Sarkar (2004) CA.

Membership/appointments

• Member of the London Catastrophic Injury Group and FOIL.