Melanie Lewis

Melanie works within our Large Loss team in our Newport office. She specialises in defending high value claims originating out of workplace incidents.

She has particular interest in investigating and defending claims where the key element is of a psychiatric nature.

Melanie's recent experience includes:

• Assisting in the defence of a £1m claim originating out of allegations of workplace bullying, stress and harassment for a City organisation;
• The investigation and defence of a large number of claims arising out of a gas explosion for a large Utility company - the claims included a fatality and a number of alleged secondary victims.

Melanie qualified in 2004 and joined DAC Beachcroft in 2007.