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Jeremy is Of Counsel in our Insurance and Reinsurance Group based in our Sheffield office. He specialises in defending and advising on claims involving occupational health liabilities. He acts for UK central government departments, financial institutions, self-insured and major insurance companies. He has also acted for uninsured clients. 

Since 2000, Jeremy has been a key advisor to central government on one of the UK’s highest profile group actions in the UK and he currently acts as a principle advisor to central government for one of the country’s largest compensation schemes. 

One of Jeremy’s specialisms is respiratory disease claims as a consequence of exposure to coal mine dust, silica and/or asbestos, many of which are high value and involve medical causation and multi-jurisdictional issues. He regularly handles high value catastrophic injury and occupational stress claims.

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    "Jeremy Fletcher is a solid and utterly reliable lawyer – a sure and steady hand who handles a lot of the heavyweight coal mining-related litigation."
    Legal 500

Relevant experience

  • Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on defending a group action involving 600,000 claims against the former British Coal Corporation arising out respiratory disease claims from former mineworkers.
  • BEIS on advising on policy and operational issues in relation to industrial disease compensation scheme with over 95,000 applicants.
  • BEIS in respect of an array of complex multi-track respiratory disease claims, including as a consequence of alleged exposure to asbestos fibres, silica, fumes and coal mine dust.   
  • Major insurance and international companies in relation to claims relating to catastrophic injuries.      
  • An international financial institution and a large UK corporation in claims relating to psychological injury and occupational stress.
  • A major US corporation in respect of an injury arising at an industrial plant operating in the UK.
  • An uninsured architects firm in respect of a claim for mesothelioma.  

Education

  • 1998 - LPC, College of Law, Chester.
  • 1997 - LLB, Brunel University, London.
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