David Williams

Partner, Solicitor, DAC Beachcroft

David is a personal injury lawyer in DAC Beachcroft's Leeds office and specialises in data breach claims and casualty work, managing the claims for a number of multinational corporate clients.

Relevant experience includes:

Representing the successful appellant in the Supreme Court judgment in Zurich Insurance v Hayward, described by Professor Dominic Regan as “having immense ramifications for civil litigators” (New Law Journal).
Representing an insurer client and its insured in a lead asbestos-related disease claim, securing a settlement enabling ongoing immunotherapy treatment to be purchased by the Claimant whilst concluding her claim before trial.
Representing an insurer client and its insured in a lead nervous shock claim, Farmer v Outokumpu, the claim being dismissed as the Claimant failed to satisfy the control tests which govern such claims.