David Drewe

David specialises in handling high value, complex and unusual claims for insurers and health service bodies.

David's experience includes stress, bullying, abuse and failure to educate claims, and he currently manages the firm's portfolio of claims for a national housebuilder. He also has considerable experience of managing multi party actions, and for many years represented solicitors in defending professional indemnity claims. He currently acts for local authority officers and professionals against whom claims have been made.

Current and recent experience includes:

• Successfully defending a head teacher who was alleged to have given a false reference.
• Acting for insurers of a construction company whose employee suffered a head injury when struck by a badly slung load, loaded by an employee of a sub-contractor.
• Acting for a firearms dealer in a claim by a customer who alleges he was blinded as a result of a faulty repair.
• Defending a claim by a former finance director who alleges that he suffers from stress related injuries.

David qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and joined DAC Beachcroft in 2016.