Andrew Arentsen’s practice is predominantly personal injury, with a focus on high value and complex claims usually involving conflicting medical evidence. It also includes professional and clinical negligence. He is also highly regarded for his work on commercial and contractual disputes, including insurance disputes as well as cases involving sports law, sporting disciplinary regulation.
Personal Injury work has a particular focus on catastrophic, spinal and closed head injuries. These include cases of employers’ liability, occupiers’ liability and road traffic accidents. Specialist advice is offered in claims with conflicting, complex medical evidence for example with orthopaedic, neurological or psychiatric disputes or where pain disorders are challenged. Work is divided between Claimant and Defendant and includes extensive experience at trial and in a pre-trial advisory capacity of industrial disease litigation (including group actions) in the form of deafness, asbestosis, dermatitis, WRULD and HAVS. He is very experienced in cases of NIHL of all types and has ongoing involvement in test litigation where the applicability or otherwise of the Coles Lutman Guidelines to BT engineers exposed to tonal noise is being addressed. The acute difficulties of cases involving exposure to asbestos with mesothelioma are regularly and sensitively addressed as are the problems presented litigating high value cases worth over one million.
Clinical negligence work is for both Claimants and Defendants and has included injuries caused at birth, negligent surgical procedures and cases of mis-diagnosis.
Commercial and common law litigation includes a focus on costs and recoverability issues. Regular instructions involve a multitude of commercial contractual disputes as well as insolvency. Common law work includes cases of professional negligence with solicitors, architects and surveyors. Specialist advice is offered in respect of insurance policies and recoverability issues as well as complex cases revolving around the construction, maintenance and management of sewerage systems.
Andrew has recent and extensive experience of sports disciplinary regulation including the supervision and administration of sports clubs by governing bodies.
Andrew is listed in both The Legal 500 and Chambers UK Guide to the Bar as a leading personal injury practitioner on the Wales and Chester Circuit every year without exception since 2000.