Olya Melnitchouk

Position:
Associate

Specialist Area:
Group actions, Injury litigation, Personal injury defendant, Product liability

Office:
London

Phone:
020 7293 4506

Email:
omelnitchouk@dac.co.uk

Olya has considerable experience in acting for defendants in the pharmaceutical and health care sectors.

She has been involved in high profile multi-party product liability actions including the MMR vaccine litigation. She has represented defendants in a number of complex product liability disputes involving medical devices and other consumer products.

Olya has acted for medical defence organisations, public and private hospitals, and individual health care professionals in a variety of clinical negligence and professional conduct matters.

She is experienced in defending employers' and public liability claims involving a personal injury element for insurance company clients.

Olya is also qualified as a solicitor in Australia, where she specialised in medical litigation for several years before moving to London. She has written a number of articles on issues of medical law and product liability.

Articles

The fetal anti-convulsant litigation - Dispute resolution update

Importer rides into trouble with defective bike - Dispute resolution update

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

Food label restrictions in danger of going too far

Medical Law International - Hazard Alerts and Product Liability: Can a normally functioning medical device be a defective product?

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