Panel Solicitors

Park Woodfine Heald Mellows are not members of any clinical negligence legal expenses insurance panels.  You may feel therefore that our views are given with a degree of bias.  Our aim, however, is just to point out the issues and our experience.

Things you need to check:

• Are they local?  If they are not, are you happy dealing with the case over the telephone?
• Is one case worker assigned?  If not, you can find your case being dealt with in a call centre type environment.  Do you want to deal with your case in a series of questionnaires?  Are you happy for a succession of different caseworkers to deal with the case?
• Is the case worker accredited?

In April 2009 Park Woodfine Heald Mellows successfully took a case rejected by a panel firm to Court.  This case highlights the deficiency of the panel solicitor approach to problems.  Click here for case details.