Derek Carrigan – Partner & Personal Injury Solicitor  Derek  Carrigan

Derek joined Lawford Kidd as a trainee in 1998, qualified in 2000 and was assumed as a partner in 2006. He has history and law degrees awarded by the University of Glasgow. Derek handles many types of personal injury claims in Scotland, including industrial accident claims and road traffic accident claims.. He helps clients to obtain 100% of the compensation awarded to them with no ‘success fee’. Derek recently succeeded in recovering £500,000 for a client with a serious head injury, caused by an accident at work. Derek has a trade union background and, as part of his union case load, he obtained over £400,000 for a victim of asbestos related mesothelioma. He also settled a significant road traffic accident claim, with the global settlement for the six pursuers amounting to £700,000.