All Personal injury & clinical negligence articles – Page 56
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NewsSociety defends ad campaign following complaints to ASA
The Law Society has said it is confident its latest advertising campaign will be given the all-clear by regulators.
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Direct portal access due next month
Users of the expanded new claims portal will have to wait until the end of September for the more efficient method of registering a case.
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Negligent advice award for coal miner
Thousands of claims by sick miners for negligent compensation advice could hit the courts, a solicitor representing the first victim of negligent advice to have his case decided has warned. Robert Godfrey, partner and head of professional negligence at Oldham firm Mellor Hargreaves, represented former coal miner Ronald Barnaby, who ...
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Government ‘must listen to reason’ on whiplash – PI lawyers
Lawyers today welcomed a parliamentary report on whiplash that ‘finally recognised the realities’ of the claims system.
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Commons whiplash inquiry finds for claimants
MPs today warn the government that its plans to cut the cost of whiplash claims will impair access to justice and leave the door open for claims management companies.
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‘Brainwashing’ claim as portal claims limit rises
A union leader today accused the government of ‘brainwashing’ the public into believing in the compensation culture.
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Feature
Mesothelioma Bill
‘One has also to bear in mind that, typically, the worst symptoms of pain, suffering and loss of amenity occur in the last weeks and days of the disease’s progress and that the death… is a horrible one.’(Senior Master Whitaker: Smith v Bolton Copper Limited: Unreported 10 July 2007 QBD) ...
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Iggy Pop, your boys took one hell of a beating
That noise you can hear is probably claimant lawyers parodying that Norwegian commentary.
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ProfileBrazilian crash victim gets £7m damages
Jenny Kennedy won £7m in damages for a newly-wed Brazilian woman who, although wearing a crash helmet, suffered severe brain injuries when knocked off a motorbike in London by an uninsured driver.
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NewsNHS claims surge by 66% in just four years
The head of the NHS Litigation Authority has denied that rocketing claims figures indicate increased negligence in the NHS. Catherine Dixon, the authority’s chief executive, spoke after this month’s damning Keogh review into death rates at hospitals across England. The report is expected to prompt a new rash of claims ...
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Opinion
Motor insurance: health checks
I was interested to see AXA’s recent report on whiplash – an issue on which we have submitted evidence to the Transport Select Committee. The insurance industry continually issues figures about how much whiplash claims allegedly add on to motor insurance policies every year. However, no one appears to be ...
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CMCs ordered to show they comply with fee ban
More than 140 claims management companies (CMCs) are being asked to prove they have not breached the referral fee ban since April, the government has revealed. The Claims Management Regulation Unit, managed by the Ministry of Justice, has visited more than 450 companies across England and Wales since the ban ...
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Feature
Assessing costs in clinical negligence cases
Clinical negligence practitioners on both the claimant and defendant sides are waiting with bated breath to see how courts will deal with arguments on proportionality.
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MoJ proposes online scheme for asbestos victims
Victims of asbestos-related disease are to be offered a process for out-of-court compensation
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APIL chief joins call for ban on incentives
The leader of the UK's biggest claimant representative group has said it is a 'mystery' why regulators have opted not to ban inducements for personal injury claims.
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Opinion
Stop this PI lawyer-bashing
I read with sadness the letter from Rob Barley. I work for a small practice which mainly deals with personal injury claims. I have in the past month received at least five calls to my firm’s telephone number asking me if I am sure I have not been injured in ...
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Opinion
Standing up to the insurance industry
The Law Society deserves to be praised for at long last standing up to the insurance industry. There are critics who (justifiably) will say all of this is too little too late, but the campaign is something which is very close to my heart. We launched Review My Claim earlier ...
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Law Report
Reasonable foreseeability
Hide v Steeplechase Co (Cheltenham) Limited and Others (2013) EWCA Civ 545 (Longmore, McFarlane and Davis LJJ)
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Opinion
PI firms not playing by the rules
In the new personal injury claims environment we all have to play by the new rules. The trouble is that there are many firms which are not. I have seen adverts on the internet offering, without qualification, ‘100% compensation’, but when the firm in question is called the offer is ...