ALARM North seminar

Megan Bray

NQ Associate, Kennedys

Meg acts for insurers as well as public and private sector organisations. Meg’s focus is on employers and public liability claims, as well as having an interest in property damage claims, particularly subsidence.

In addition to having her own case load Meg assists on high-value, sensitive cases involving data protection and allegations of abuse.

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Megan Dunford

Head of Large & Complex Property Claims, Zurich Municipal

Megan Dunford has over two decades experience in Property Claims in Zurich. In July 2024 she was appointed Head of Large & Complex Property Claims where she now leads a nationwide team managing high-value claims and, as of November 2024, also oversees Zurich Private Clients, ensuring expert handling of high net worth losses.

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Caroline Elson

Legal Director, Kennedys

Caroline acts for insurers and local authorities, dealing with a wide variety of employers’ and public liability claims. These range from accidents in schools, the workplace and care homes to carefully handling sensitive cases involving children or vulnerable persons. Caroline also deals with claims arising from allegations of abuse, data protection breaches and breach of the Human Rights Act. An active member of ALARM, Caroline regularly provides external training at both local and national ALARM events and has delivered seminars on a range of issues affecting the public sector. She also regularly provides bespoke in house training to clients on a broad range of topics.

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Donna Helgeson

Principal Associate, Weightmans LLP

Donna Helgeson is a Principal Associate in Weightmans’ Regulatory Team specialising in health & safety and environmental matters. Donna has experience in dealing with all aspects of regulatory investigations and prosecutions instigated by a wide range of regulatory bodies and has acted for a broad range of clients from PLCs to sole traders across a range of industry sectors

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Andrew Millard

Public Sector Practice Leader - North, Aon

Andrew Millard has helped Public Sector organisations manage and transfer their risks since 2004. Over the past few years he has taken an interest in the People risk of an organisation, recognising it’s increasing relevance on the risk register.

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Tim Rollett

Intelligence and Policy Manager, Leeds City Council

Tim has over 15 years’ experience working in local authority risk management with Leeds City Council. His responsibilities include maintaining the council’s risk management framework, reporting the corporate risks to senior officers and elected members and delivering risk training and workshops. Tim’s role also covers networking and sharing best practice with other local authority risk managers in West Yorkshire and across the UK Core Cities.

As Deputy Chair of West Yorkshire Prepared (the Local Resilience Forum) - Risk and Capabilities sub-group, Tim works with multi-agency partners to update and manage resilience risks facing the county. 

In 2023, Tim was part of a team that won the Service Delivery category in ALARM’s Annual Risk Awards: for working with health and social care providers to prepare for unplanned power outages.

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