The CSC Executive

Darren Werth - Chairman

Darren is the Managing Director of Accident Advice Helpline (AAH). Established in 2000 and endorsed by Esther Rantzen, AAH provides a total accident management service to include credit hire, credit repair and personal injury. Darren is an executive member of the Claims Standards Council as well as an industry representative at the MoJ’s Regulatory Consultative Group.

Executive Committee

Simon Goldhill

Simon is a director and Chief Operating Officer of InterResolve Holdings Limited which is delivering industry-wide solutions at the leading edge of change in the personal injury claims market. Previously, Simon practiced as a commercial litigation solicitor, establishing businesses in the legal sector as well as being a partner in and head of department of a leading London firm of solicitors. He also sits on the boards of the Moat School and The Kids’ Cookery School, both successfully growing not-for-profit companies enabling children with real or apparent disadvantages to achieve their potential.

Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge is a practicing solicitor who has specialised in personal injury and road traffic accident claims for more than 20 years. He is a partner of South East corridor firm asb law and heads the Uninsured Loss Recovery department at its asb aspire llp division. He is also the chairman of LawAlliance

Adrian Maurice

Adrian Maurice, Managing Director of Elision Limited, has led several major claims management programmes, from oil pollution claims in the wake of the Braer and Sea Empress disasters, to the design, build and operation of the medical record digitisation process supporting the BERR (formerly DTI) respiratory disease compensation scheme for miners. More recently he has been fundamental in the creation of 'Resolusion', a ground breaking new scheme for processing personal injury claims.

Anthony Sultan

Anthony Sultan has been a prominent figure in the Claims Management sector for over 5 years. He was a co-founder in 2003 of a claims handling company initially specialising in endowment mis-selling claims. The company became the largest in its sector under Anthony’s leadership. Anthony has been a staunch advocate of regulation from the very early days, believing passionately in the introduction of regulation through the Claims Standards Council, to ensure that only professional operators could continue to practice. The enactment of the Compensation Act 2006 formalised this regulation under the DCA (Department for Constitutional Affairs), since renamed the Ministry of Justice. In addition, he worked on the government advisory committee responsible for the defining of the regulatory framework. Anthony has actively lobbied MPs, Ministers and the FSA to expose some of the unfair tactics adopted by Financial Service Providers. Sensitive to the short comings of many claims management companies, Anthony set up his own niche company earlier this year - The Financial Claims Service. The business is based upon a more holistic approach in line with clients’ current expectations, encompassing the values that he himself believes in - that of a more transparent, ethical and client focused approach to claim resolution. Anthony is regularly interviewed by the national press, radio and TV as an expert in the sector.

John Webber

John Webber is the Senior Partner at Russell Jones & Walker. He qualified in 1969, and joined the company in the same year. John was made a partner in 1973. Initially John practiced personal injury law but was then involved in the early development of the firm's employment department. Throughout his career he has acted for Affinity Group clients of the firm. The firm now acts for in excess of 20 Affinity Groups and John has been involved with all of them with the provision of legal and other extended services. John became Senior Partner in 1978 and has since focused on developing the practice and dealing with management issues.

Advisors

Sir Philip Otton

Sir Philip was appointed as a High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in 1983, to the Court of Appeal in 1985 and to the Court of Appeal in Gibraltar in 2004. He continues to sit in the Privy Council and the Court of Appeal (on occasions). He was President of the Society of Construction Law, President of the Personal Injury Bar Association and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Judicial Administration Birmingham University.

Fraser Whitehead

Fraser is a leading workplace lawyer advising trade unions and their members on a wide variety of issues, including collective and individual employment rights, collective and regulatory law, industrial action and the work environment, including health and safety. Fraser is active in the legal profession and the wider world. He is a recent director of the Mary Ward Law Centre, honorary legal adviser and former chair of the Child Accident Prevention Trust and one-time adviser to the Press for Union Rights Campaign.

Andy Wigmore

A founder of Health Media, which floated on AIM and also of Health Squared Communications, Pearl Medical and Opinion Health, Andrew is able to combine high-level strategic business thinking with targeted and relevant communications planning. He is a trustee of Sir Steve Redgrave Charitable Trust, Sports Fund and the Dyscovery Centre in Wales.