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Michelle Knapp

Partner // Location Head - Major Loss - London, London

Michelle is a Partner and the Location Head of the Major Loss Team in London. She specialises in catastrophic and sub-catastrophic injury cases covering employers' liability, public liability and motor claims.
Michelle Mallott

Experience

Michelle is primarily instructed by large composite insurers and Lloyds syndicates in complex liability and quantum cases involving complex orthopaedic and psychiatric injuries, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputee and fatal accident claims with reserves ranging from £100,000 to in excess of £25m. Michelle also works on complex international claims and has worked extensively on cases in France, Malta, Spain, Cyprus and Africa.

Michelle designs annual training programmes for insurer clients and regularly delivers training on calculating future heads of loss and inflationary pressures, rehabilitation, managing indemnity spend, contributory negligence and fatal claims with a focus on tactics and investigations.

She manages projects for insurer clients on reserves and Management Information to ensure that the quality of data coming through is accurate and correct. One of the recent projects undertaken resulted in one insurer client being able to secure one of the most competitive Re-insurance programmes in the market.

Michelle has also been a guest speaker at the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital and LexisNexis discussing Spinal Injuries and the Serious Injury Guide. She has worked on many high-profile cases attracting media attention including the case of Kalma and Others v Tonkolili Iron Ore (SL) Limited (TIO).

Testimonials

Legal 500: 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 - Next Generation Partner

Recent Cases

  • Kalma and Others v Tonkolili Iron Ore (SL) Limited (TIO).