Kennedys expand healthcare practice with hire of Dawn McIntosh

We are growing our healthcare practice with the appointment of Dawn McIntosh, partner, and a highly regarded medical malpractice lawyer. Dawn, who will be based in our Newcastle office, joins the firm’s private healthcare team from DAC Beachcroft.

With over 20 years’ experience, Dawn has worked in both public and private healthcare. Dawn assists medical malpractice insurers, brokers, adjusters, leading hospital groups and healthcare professionals on a wide range of health and social care matters. She has extensive TPA experience, and is therefore able to provide health and social care providers with tailored advice on incident management, insurance notifications, and claims handling, through to managing the most complex and high value litigation in this field, including birth injury, spinal and attempted suicide claims resulting in catastrophic injury.

Dawn has already been joined by Vicky Gosling, Senior Claims Administrator and James Wilson, Litigation Assistant and will also soon be joined by Katy Barraclough-Jones, Senior Associate.

Christopher Malla, partner, and head of our global Healthcare practice, comments: “I am delighted to welcome Dawn and her team to Kennedys. With her rich background in medical malpractice, Dawn’s expertise will bolster our already flourishing healthcare offering. ”

Recognised as a ‘Legal 500 Leading Individual’, and published in ‘The Legal 500’ and ‘Chambers’, Dawn McIntosh comments: “I’ve been impressed with Kennedys’ stellar position in the industry. It’s known as a highly reputable firm with a successful and growing healthcare practice. I’m looking forward to being part of the firm, and to working collaboratively with my new colleagues around the world.”

The firm has provided legal healthcare services to the NHS and private sector hospitals, clinics, healthcare professionals and their insurers for over 40 years. The Kennedys healthcare team are ranked Tier 1 for defendant clinical negligence by leading legal directories such as Chambers and The Legal 500.

Dawn’s appointment raises the number of dedicated healthcare partners in the United Kingdom (UK) to 12, with a team of over 100 healthcare lawyers. The Kennedys healthcare team therefore now operate as a national service across five offices in the UK, including Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Sheffield and Newcastle. Globally, the firm’s healthcare practice comprises of 36 partners in 30 offices, across 18 different countries, with over 170 lawyers.

“With our growing team of dedicated healthcare partners and a large portfolio of private healthcare clients, we are continuing our journey of being a leading provider of legal services to the healthcare sector,” concluded Christopher.

The healthcare team recently published its Healthcare Brief: market insights, and a report on medical malpractice claims inflation.