Profile
Michael Rapp has a successful and varied common law practice
covering personal injury, credit hire and fraud as well as health
and safety related matters, coroner's law, disputes involving
utility companies and costs.
Michael is happy to undertake work on a conditional fee basis
and regularly helps to obtain substantial awards for clients.
Claimant instruction includes both public liability and employer's
liability claims. He is well versed in '6 pack claims' and more
complex claims such as WRULDs and industrial disease. He acts
equally for Defendants and their insurers in such claims and is
regularly instructed to defend accident at work and construction
site claims particularly those involving third party indemnities
and sub-contractual liabilities.
His personal injury practice often involves claims with complex
medical causation arguments in particular cases involving potential
non organic pain such as complex regional pain syndrome, chronic
pain, post traumatic fibromyalgia and somataform disorders.
Michael also regularly undertakes road traffic work. He is
recommended by the Legal 500 in respect of his credit hire practice
and receives substantial instruction in respect of the ever
evolving areas of fraud and low velocity impact. He has
successfully defended fraud claims through to personal cost
sanctions against individuals or alternatively wasted costs
orders/notices to show cause against firms of solicitors who have
failed to act appropriately in respect of such claims. Equally he
has sought indemnity costs for Claimant clients where such
allegations have proved groundless.
He regularly provides training and seminars for solicitors and
insurers, recent such seminars have included Fraud, Chronic Pain
and Credit Hire.