Alison McCormick
Called to bar 1988
Clerk Graham Woods Tel: 020 7353 6381
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Alison McCormick has longstanding, broad based experience over a wide range of personal injury and clinical negligence work. She has a large claimant focussed and CFA funded personal injury practice which encompasses occupational disease cases, employers’ liability, occupiers’ liability, road traffic accidents and travel litigation.
Her nationwide case load includes fatal accidents, catastrophic brain and spinal injuries and cases involving loss of limbs.
She has particular expertise in dealing with claimants with patient status, the terminally ill and recently bereaved and cases involving minors.
An emphasis on client care and good working relationships with solicitors are key features of Alison’s practice. She aims to maximise the damages awards which her clients receive and assist them to cope with, what is for many, very traumatic litigation.
Alison has a high volume of asbestos related disease cases. Last year she achieved an award of over £200,000.00 for the young widow and family of a man who died at the age of only 32 from mesothelioma after he was exposed as a child to asbestos on his step father’s work overalls. She is currently junior counsel in the first of 6 lead cases in high profile test litigation involving individuals, employers and insurance companies to determine the issue of whether payment should be made on policies of employers’ liability insurance in force during periods of negligent exposure to asbestos in respect of mesothelioma manifesting many years later – the so called “EL Trigger issue”
Alison has also recently achieved a favourable liability settlement in a clinical negligence case involving a young child who lost the lower part of both legs after her general practitioner failed to diagnose and treat haemophilius influenza septicaemia. Clinical negligence successes in the last year also include a £600,000 award for the victim of a road traffic accident who suffered serious injury to her neck which was initially not diagnosed at hospital and subsequently negligently treated.
Areas of practice
Clinical Negligence & Healthcare, Personal Injury, Public Law
What the directories say
Alison McCormick has caught the eye of observers, due to her “sensible, commercial point of view”. As one source commented “she knows how the law works and how to deal with people” Chambers UK 2007
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