Simon Hammond joined the NHS Resolution Senior Management Team on 7 January 2019 as the Director of Claims Management. Simon has a wide variety of experience in handling claims having worked for the insurance industry for over 25 years.

Simon held head of fraud roles at national law firms, before joining his previous employer, BLM, in 2009. He was promoted to associate solicitor in 2010 and to partner in 2011.

Simon has experience of handling all aspects of claims, from policy interpretation, indemnity issues, litigation and prosecution matters. He sat on the Personal Injury Sub Working Group of the Treasury’s Insurance Fraud Task Force, and has also presented at national conferences and edited a chapter of a leading insurance text book.

More recently Simon has chaired national conferences on the subject of Clinical Negligence and has given evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the subject of NHS litigation reform.