Charles Curtis
Ben is contributing the Trial and Appeals chapters to Binghams’ Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases (2023). He is ranked as a leading Junior for both Personal Injury and Insurance Fraud (2022).
He specialises in high value injury claims, often involving complex medical disputes (including neurological, psychiatric, chronic pain). He has a particular interest in fatal accident claims and the assessment of quantum in contentious cases.
Charles acts for both insurance companies and for Claimants and receives a large proportion of his instructions from many of the leading personal injury firms.
Recent cases have included:
- Liability dispute as a result of the expected Perception Reaction Time of a professional driver who struck and badly injured a pedestrian
- Neurological dispute as to whether a road traffic accident could cause a subsequent stroke
- The impact of Brexit on accidents abroad and those involving foreign drivers in the UK
- Fatal accident claim where car driver who collided with cyclist alleged he was blinded by the sun
- The impact of a minor road traffic accident on fibromyalgia and the extent of any disability due to the accident
- Fatal accident claim and the impact of drugs and alcohol on liability
- Psychiatric dispute as to travel anxiety following a fatal road traffic accident and the reasonableness of the Claimant giving up a very well paid job as a result
- Whether attendance at the scene of a road traffic accident fulfilled the criteria required to bring a claim for nervous shock
- Enforceability of periodical payments order against the MIB