David Thomas

Practice Areas

David is a director and medical negligence specialist. He heads up Switalskis' London office.

David has over 30 years’ experience acting for claimants. His area of expertise involves complex and high value medical negligence claims with a special interest in birth injury cases.

Professional Memberships

David is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, with accredited status as a Senior Litigator.

He is also a member of

The Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Panel

AvMA accreditation panel and is an Accredited Mediator.

Headway’s Brain Injury Panel.

London office Legal Aid Franchise for Clinical Negligence

Accredited supervisor for the Legal Aid Agency.

Accredited Mediator

Work Highlights

DXP v Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust – Record breaking interim payments in birth injury cerebral palsy case of utmost severity. Claimant awarded final damages of £10 million.

AXM v Homerton University Hospitals NHS Trust – Child awarded £12 million damages for severe brain injury due to avoidable hypoglycemia shortly after his birth.

AS v Central Manchester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – £3.65 million settlement on doors of court in birth injury case. Mother came to David for a second opinion after her sons case was rejected by another national firm of solicitors.

DDD v Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust – £6.2 million award for hypoxic brain injury sustained following girls birth due to negligent management of her condition in neonatal unit.

Freeman v Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (2021) EWHC 3378 (QB) – Claimant succeeds in highly contested trial at the High Court and is awarded £500,000.00 for the injury and death of her child.

GHJ v West Middlesex University Hospital - High Court approves £21.6m payout for child who suffered brain injury at birth.

EW v Bassetlaw District General Hospital - Family wins justice over negligent care leading to daughter’s brain injury

David is a regular contributor to the legal and national press and has had articles published in the Solicitors Journal and Legal Executive Journal including:

”Double Trouble – Who Pays for Care in Catastrophic Injury Claims?”

Part 36 Costs Brief: ”Winning Margin”

”Play The Part”

“Civil Law Practice Update: Assessing Future Losses in Fatal Accident Cases”.

David has also appeared on BBC TV news and live radio.