Chris van Dijk Attorney, Mediator, Partner

Chris van Dijk
Attorney, Mediator, Partner
Specialisms:
Dispute Resolution
Liability
Mediation
Sector:
Insurance
Contactgegevens:
+31 20 5506 661
[email protected]
Chris van Dijk is one of the founding fathers of Kennedy Van der Laan
and specializes in insurance and liability law. He specializes inter alia in
employers’, medical, professional and product liability and large material
damages. Besides being a practicing lawyer, Chris is also an author and
editor for several professional publications. He publishes on a wide range
of topics of liability and insurance law in several Dutch journals.
Furthermore he gives lectures about a wide range of liability problems,
such as professional, supervisors’, employers’ and product liability, as well
as the liability of financial service providers. One of the topics of these
lectures is personal injury; others are insurance, causality, extent of
damage and limitation. The lectures are given at, inter alia, the Stichting
Studiecentrum Rechterlijke macht (Training and Study Centre for the
Judiciary), University of Amsterdam VU, University of Groningen, Elsevier,
Kluwer, the Personal Injury Foundation of the Institution of Insurers, and
the Grotius Academy.
Chris is a deputy judge in the Court of The Hague and deputy justice in
the Court of Appeal of Arnhem.
Chris also works as a mediator in the field of insurance and liability law.
He focuses especially on material damages and injuries.
Chambers Europe 2014:
“Chris Van Dijk heads the
firm’s insurance
department. He
specialises in
professional liability and
large material damages
cases.”
In his sports career Chris has run more than 50 marathons and has
participated in many fundraising bicycle rides.
Practice areas
 Insurance
 Tort liability
 Personal injury
Education
 Mediation, Van der Hoeven Nelissen
 IT law, Grotius Academy, 1995-1996
 Personal Injury, Grotius Academy, 1994
 Post-graduate training to be a Judge (RIAO), 1986-1992
 Law, VU Amsterdam, 1984
Teaching
Chris is a lecturer with the Grotius Academy and the Stichting
Studiecentrum Rechterlijke macht (SSR) (Training and Study Centre for
the Judiciary). Apart from that he gives lectures about a wide range of
liability problems, such as professional, supervisors’, employers’ and
product liability, as well as the liability of financial service providers. One
of the topics of these lectures is personal injury; others are insurance,
causality, extent of damage and limitation. The lectures are given at, inter
alia, the Stichting Studiecentrum Rechterlijke macht (SSR) (Training and
Study Centre for the Judiciary), VU University, University of Groningen,
Elsevier, Kluwer, the Personal Injury Foundation of the Institution of
Insurers, and Grotius Academy.
Legal 500 EMEA 2014:
“Kennedy Van der Laan’s
team is ‘very practical,
with commercial feeling’
and has been
increasingly handling
D&O and professional
indemnity matters. Chris
van Dijk is a personal
injury specialist, and Frits
van der Woude focuses
on D&O and professional
liability cases. Erik van
Orsouw and Peter van
den Broek advise on
technical damages
cases.”
Judicial positions
 Deputy district court judge in The Hague since 1997
 Deputy Justice of the Court of Appeal in Arnhem since 2004
Professional Associations
 Committee Member of the Dutch Association of Personal Injury
Lawyers (1994-2010)
 Member of the Netherlands Lawyers’ Association
 Member of the Dutch Civil Law Association
 Member of the Netherlands Association for the Judiciary
 Member of the Society for Insurance Studies
 Member of European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law Vienna
 Examiner of specialization course Personal Injury at the Grotius
Academy
 Chief editor of the Tijdschrift voor Vergoeding Personenschade
(Journal for Personal Injury Compensation)
 Editor of Jurisprudentie Aansprakelijkheid (Liability Case Law)
 Editor of Bedrijfsjuridische Berichten (Company Law News)
 Contributor to Aansprakelijkheid, Verzekering en Schade (Liability,
Insurance and Damage)
 President of VIRA (Netherlands Association of Computer Lawyers)
2000-2002
 Board Member of VIRA (Netherlands Association of Computer
Lawyers) 1998-2000
 Co-founder and board member of the Dutch Association for Liability
and Compensation Law
 CausaRie, association of liability experts
 Dutch Insurance Exchange Association
 Health Care Law Association
 Association of Civil Procedural Law
Community services
 Since 1994 member of the disciplinary of the Badminton Association
Chambers Europe 2013:
“Chris Van Dijk is praised
by one client as “an
authority in the market
and a good
communicator.” He
specialises in employers’,
professional and product
liability.”

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