Claims Management Conference 2019

She is probably best known as Chair of the Motor Insurance Advisory Board which was a statutory investigation into the cost of insurance that made 67 recommendations in 2002 which were accepted by Government including establishment of the Personal Injuries Asessment Board of which she was Chair until February 2014.

His work over the next 30 years was primarily concerned with personal injuries work. He was appointed to the High Court in 1998 and thereafter to the Supreme Court in 2004. He was made President of the High Court in 2009, a position he continued to occupy until his retirement at the end of 2015. His work as a judge involved a continuing connection with personal injuries work. He also served as Competition judge in the High Court and has sat as an ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights. In January 2017 Justice Kearns was appointed by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as chairperson of the Personal Injuries Commission.

Before practising law he completed a degree in mathematical science and worked in finance, where he acquired experience with pricing models for risk events.

Caroline is a Board member of the Pyrite Resolution Board of Ireland and St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin.

In recent years her area of specialisation has expanded to include the overlap between product liability laws, medical devices regulations and clinical negligence. In particular Sarah has focused her research on the defective PIP implants & DePuy recall of the ASR hip replacement system. Sarah is an associate legal expert with the Institute of Public Administration where she delivers specialised training in medical law, judicial review and courtroom skills to the public sector. She also lecturers Product liability law in Trinity College Dublin and is a guest lecturer in clinical negligence for the HSE & the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 2015 Sarah was appointed as legal counsel to the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry.

He started his career in the crash repair business over 30 years ago, during which he has managed and owned body shops throughout Ireland, the UK and the United States. During his time in the business, Paul has gained a vast knowledge of motor claims fraud. He has recently set up a company, Fraud Works Ireland Ltd, which aims to tackle motor insurance fraud through extensive training with motor claims staff to detect and prevent fraud at the onset.

He is the holder of a Gold Medal from UCD Law School and has 20 years’ experience in medical negligence and malpractice Litigation.
He has concluded many landmark medical misadventure and medical neglect legal cases (see below) and acted for families and patients in some of the largest medical negligence awards by the Irish Courts. 

He has experience of medical litigation of all types especially cerebral palsy, birth injury, brain injury, orthopaedic, surgical and delay in diagnosis.

He has represented bereaved families at inquests nationwide from Limerick to Belfast and was lead advocate for the Kivlehan and Rowlette families at the inquests into the deaths of Sally Rowlette and Dhara Kivlehan. 

Roger has lectured extensively for the Law Society Law School on medical law.  Patients and their families nationwide seek his advice.  He is a native of Co Kildare and attends court and meetings in Dublin on a weekly basis.

DFG Legal Costs Accountants has been in practise for over 10 years and has provided legal costs services for a number of insurance providers to include advising on the cost consequences of certain defences and after the fact legal costs. Ryan is an experienced litigator practising in defamation, personal injuries, and professional negligence actions.