Neglect Abuse

Holmes provide market-leading expertise across all forms of abuse-related claims under public liability, professional/officials indemnity, and medical malpractice policies.

Our team is instructed to defend both group actions and individual claims, some of them extremely high profile, arising from allegations of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. We handle claims from children, vulnerable or elderly adults, as well as those with mental and physical disabilities and which relate to current issues and to historical claims. Extensive experience dealing with sensitive cases helps us to work with our clients to anticipate potential media interest and develop a strategy to protect reputation and ensure media contact exposure is controlled and legally accurate.