Expertise in liability, insurance and criminal law
- Special professional experience in liability law
- Handling numerous cases involving traffic disputes: representing offenders, liable parties and victims, filing and defending claims for damages
- Special knowledge in the field of personal injury (in particular serious accidents and fatal accidents); extensive experience in cases of 100% disability of victims and the calculation of compensation by means of capitalisation
- Public liability: defending public authorities (local and regional administrations) in all possible liability cases (contractual and non-contractual liability, e.g. traffic litigation, pollution (on the road))
- Experience in fire damage cases: both in terms of liability and insurance
- Experience in handling mass claims such as the case of the collapse of the Parochial Centre in LINT
- Special professional experience in insurance law
- In-depth knowledge of the insurance aspects of traffic litigation (WAM and BA, comprehensive insurance, legal assistance, the Common Motor Guarantee Fund, the Belgian Motor Insurers' Bureau, the Assuralia conventions, etc.)
- Thorough general knowledge of insurance law (including the Insurance Act: rules on exclusions (gross negligence) and lapse of cover, cover in time, limitation periods, rescue and preservation costs, etc.)
- Experience in cases relating to fire insurance issues, including tenant liability and the investigation of arson
- Specialised knowledge of insurance in the construction sector, including the ABR and BA operating licence
- Specialised professional experience in criminal law
- Assisting perpetrators, victims and civilly liable parties in all stages of criminal proceedings: both in the context of preliminary investigations (drafting and filing complaints with civil claims, exercising Franchimont rights before the investigating judge, the chamber and the KI) and in the context of substantive proceedings before the police courts, the criminal courts and the courts of appeal
- Relevant experience in cassation proceedings in criminal cases
- Disciplinary defence of members of the liberal professions before their disciplinary authorities
Date of birth
22 April 1960
Lawyer since
1984
At gsj since
2001
Practice group
- Liability, insurance and criminal law
Studies
- Diploma candidate in law: R.U.G.
- Diploma licentiate in law: U.I.A.
- Postgraduate training in human damage assessment: K.U.L.
- Training in communication skills Antwerp Bar
Languages
Dutch, French, English, passive German and passive Spanish
Preferred subjects
Traffic, personal injury, special criminal law (also cassation proceedings in criminal cases), professional liability, insurance law, medical law (disciplinary law, Riziv-contentieux, hospital law)
Selection of publications
- Publications in Courant, TRD and course materials, among others
Memberships
- Board member of the Flemish Conference 1999-2000
- Member of the Social Services Committee of the Antwerp Bar
- Since 1987, member of the board of directors of VZW SFINKS ANIMATIE, which organises, among other things, the annual Sfinks Festival in Boechout and the Summer of Antwerp (since 1993)
- Editorial member of TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR RECHTSDOCUMENTATIE (1982-1992)
- Editorial member of Courant (1994-2000)
- Member of the General Assembly of Onderlinge Ziekenkas, now PREVOCA (1994-2006)
- Chairman of GECORO Ranst (since 2006)
Selection of study days and teaching assignments
Speaker at various seminars on liability and insurance law
More information
Teacher at the Antwerp Internship School since 1992 to date for the subjects: Traffic Procedures, Practical Aspects of Expert Investigations and Supplementary Insurance in the Context of Self-Employment Status.
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