DWF has strengthened its major injury and casualty team with 27 new hires across its Leeds and London offices to support insurers handling increasingly complex high-value claims. The recruitment includes five partners, a director, senior associates, and other legal professionals. Four partners have joined from Kennedys, with a fifth arriving from DAC Beachcroft in October.
The Leeds office plays a key role in the expansion, bringing local capacity and expertise to liability defence, catastrophic injury, travel litigation, regulatory matters, and crisis management. The growth enhances DWF’s ability to advise insurers and corporate clients on complex casualty exposures, which have risen in both frequency and severity.
The expansion responds to pressures on the insurance sector, where catastrophic injury claims now involve multi-million-pound settlements influenced by medical inflation, long-term care costs, and updated life expectancy projections. Regulatory scrutiny and evolving fraud trends have increased demand for specialist legal support.
DWF’s Insurance Services division, employing around 2,000 staff globally, positions itself as a leading provider of integrated legal and business services to insurers. The new hires in Leeds and London reflect the firm’s strategy to expand capacity and deliver specialist expertise to meet the sector’s evolving requirements.
