Experience Overview

Simon is the Joint National Practice Group Leader of the Personal Injury Department and is also the Managing Partner of the Sheffield office. He heads the Occupational Disease Group within the Personal Injury Department. Simon's specialisation is in claimant personal injury. He is involved specifically in accidents at work, asbestos cases, multi-handed fume and VWF cases and post-traumatic stress cases.

He set up the firm's national Occupational Disease Group, which is the first of its kind in the UK, to research and develop knowledge of such illnesses. He also designed the firm’s systems for doing Employers Liability cases.

Simon is the national Partner for accidents at work, providing a monthly bulletin on developments in accident law.

According to Simon the most satisfying aspect of his work is obtaining damages for victims of accidents and illness, which hopefully improve their lives. The Legal 500 described the team led by Simon as 'Excellent.'

Simon is a member of many organisations including; the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Personal Injury Panel and the Sheffield Law Society. Alongside this, he is an assessor for the Personal Injury Panel, and a member of the Law Society Committee which produced the Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocol, and the Disease and Illness Protocol for the Lord Chancellors Department. Simon has received much praise in the most recent publication of Chambers and Partners, being ranked in Band One. It is commented that Simons "has the courage to take on awkward cases and run them through to a successful conclusion."

He has written for a number of law journals over the past 20 years. Simon is the co-author of the APIL Guide to Damages, and provides the Accidents at Work chapter for the Personal Injury Law Practice and Precedents book. He is on the editorial board of Kemp & Kemp PI Practice and Procedure, and amongst the chapters that he writes is the occupational illness chapter. Simon is a regular lecturer both internally and for a number of legal organisations, seeking to improve the knowledge of practitioners acting for injured people so that injured people receive good advice.

Simon is highly thought of by his clients.  Please see below a selection of client comments:

• Thank you once again, for the brilliant support you have given us.  You truly are a professional in every way.  I would have no hesitation in recommending you to anyone else.
• I write on behalf of my mother in law to express her gratitude for the work you have undertaken on her behalf following the sudden and tragic death of her husband in a road traffic accident.
• Your thoughtful, professional and courteous manner in your dealings and during the claim for damages is most appreciated.
• Thank you for your recent correspondence, you have achieved an excellent result in pursuing this matter
• May I thank you for achieving for me a successful claim for compensation for the injuries I received from working with asbestos. The professionalism you shown whilst handling my case was exceptional.
• I would like to express our appreciation for the work that you have done on behalf of my father, it would have been nice for him to see the results of your efforts. That was not to be but he did instruct me to carry on, in no uncertain terms. Thank you once again for your professional and sympathetic approach it made a very difficult situation easier for us to bear.

Simon Allen's Law Society Gazette Articles

Please view Simon Allen's article regarding the general damages for mesothelioma. This article can be read in the Law Society Gazette

Simon has written an article on balancing risk in Personal Injury claims. This article can be read in the Law Society Gazette.

Simon has written about the value of risk assessment. This article can be read in the Law Society Gazette.

Simon's writes about the disclosure of medical evidence. This article can be read in the Law Society Gazette.

Asbestos Compensation Claims - Simon Allen discusses the valuation of general damages in Mesothelioma Claims in the Law Society Gazette.

Reported Cases

Payout for Asbestos Victim - Simon represented a gentleman who was diagnosed with incurable mesothelioma cancer.

Firm offers six-figure deal to family of asbestos victim - Simon represented Mr Bradley, who died of malignant Mesothelioma.  

Construction Site Accident Compensation Following Crane Explosion - Simon represented Mr Dooley, who had been injured at work when the nearby crane exploded.Latest News/Blogs

Mesothelioma Sufferer Keith Hawkins Urges Local Contractors to Come Forward - Simon is representing Mr Keith Hawkins, who has recently been diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Appeal for Witnesses Made by Injured Sheffield Woman, Jane Lowe - Simon is representing Jane Lowe who was knocked over by a bus in Sheffield.

Injury Compensation for Treatments

When a patient has been injured by an insured person they may be entitled to an Initial Needs Assessment to assist with early treatment and recovery. Under the rehabilitation code solicitors have a duty to consider in consultation with the medical team whether there is an immediate need for additional mental health treatment, rehabilitation, drugs, aids, adaptations, adjustments to employment that would work to alleviate problems caused by injury.