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Professional Liability Claims

We trust professionals precisely because we cannot check their work ourselves — which is why the law holds them to the standard of their calling. When a doctor, engineer, accountant, consultant or other professional falls below that standard and causes loss, a professional liability claim is the mechanism of accountability. We pursue these claims, and defend professionals facing them.

What these claims involve

A professional negligence claim turns on three questions: the standard — what a competent member of that profession would have done; the breach — how the defendant’s work fell short of it; and the loss — what damage that failure caused. Each field has its own framework: medical liability operates under the UAE’s dedicated medical liability regime with specialist committee assessment; engineers and supervising consultants carry statutory exposure, including decennial liability for structural safety; financial and legal professionals answer to the standards and duties of their own regulation. Expert evidence from within the profession is almost always the heart of the case.

How we help

Claiming, we assess the merits honestly before you invest in proceedings; secure the file and records; build the expert evidence establishing the standard and the breach; and quantify the loss so the claim is worth bringing. Defending, we protect professionals and their insurers against allegations that overstate the standard or invent the causation — because hindsight is not negligence, and we make that case rigorously.

Common questions

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Through the dedicated medical liability framework, in which specialist medical committees assess whether the care fell below the required standard. We manage the claim through that process and the courts.
No. Professionals do not guarantee results; they owe competent work. The claim succeeds by proving the work fell below the professional standard and caused the loss — a distinction that decides these cases.
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