No fixed clinical negligence costs without a fixed system, says APIL
The cost of clinical negligence claims will never fall unless the NHS Resolution’s bad practice is brought under control, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has warned. In responding to...
View ArticleWeightmans says that Thompsons has used its analysis of MoJ data selectively...
Defendant law firm Weightmans has said that its claimant rival Thompsons has cherry picked from its analysis of official MoJ data to argue that the Government is not justified in pushing forward with...
View ArticleCEGA special investigations appointed sole provider of claims validation...
CEGA Special Investigations has been appointed as the sole supplier of claims validation services for Personal Group’s inpatient benefit claims. The move sees Personal Group, a leading provider of...
View ArticleFoot Anstey’s medical negligence practice sets sail as Enable Law
Foot Anstey’s medical negligence practice has become a separate business entity within the Foot Anstey Group. Known as Enable Law, Foot Anstey says that the firm will represent the largest medical...
View ArticleNew UK and Ireland claims team head for HDI
HDI Global SE has made John McCammon its director of claims for the UK and Ireland. McCammon takes on the new leadership role after having worked at Liberty Mutual for the last nine years in various...
View ArticleMedCo issued 337 warning letters and terminated 134 user agreements in the...
MedCo has sent out 337 warning letters in the past year, two thirds of which ended up in a suspension for users of the medical report sourcing portal. Some of the letters, sent in the year up to 31...
View ArticleExclude complex claims from fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical...
The Law Society has said that complex claims should be excluded from plans to introduce fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence cases. Responding to the Department of Health...
View ArticleS&G Response gets a new chairman to help steer company on the road ahead
S&G Response has appointed Charles Layfield as its new chairman. Layfield has had a career in law that spans over twenty years, including almost a decade at Pannone Solicitors, where has was an...
View ArticleInsurers should not be allowed to shirk their responsibilities by pushing for...
The Government must not allow the insurance industry to shirk its responsibility to fully compensate severely injured people by trying to get Ministers to calculate a discount rate that protects their...
View ArticleInsurance industry could be facing a perfect storm warns BIBA CEO, Steve White
The doubling of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) in only 18 months, the changes to the discount rate for calculating catastrophic injury damages, increasing inflation and decreasing value of Sterling, and...
View ArticleRTA and PPI nuisance caller fined a record £400,000 by the ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Keurboom Communications a record £400,000 after more than 1,000 people complained about the company cold calling them over matters such as road...
View ArticleSlater and Gordon tells Watchstone Group that it will claim £600 million for...
Watchstone Group has said that Slater and Gordon intends to pursue a claim against the company for £600 million for fraudulent misrepresentation after its disastrous purchase of Quindell’s legal...
View ArticleExchange Chambers silks accuse Ministry of Justice of “fiddling while Rome...
Two personal injury silks at Exchange Chambers have added their voices to a chorus of discontent over late night courts with one of them accusing the Ministry of Justice of “fiddling while Rome burns”....
View Article“Not fit for purpose” discount rate law must change, says Medical Defence Union
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has said that the law governing the discount rate is “not fit for purpose” and that the next Government must change it. The recent discount rate drop of 3.25%...
View ArticlePI reform: Making the claims process better and fairer for all
Qamar Anwar says that the next Government should deal with PI reform through a standalone bill Claimant lawyers should not get the bunting out quite yet – we all know that if the Conservatives form the...
View ArticleFormer Slater & Gordon London clinical negligence head moves to Hodge Jones &...
Hodge Jones & Allen has appointed James Bell, the former head of the London clinical negligence practice at Slater & Gordon. Bell has over 20 years’ experience working across a wide range of...
View ArticleSeparating the nuisance callers from genuine telemarketing
The claims sector can help prevent a telemarketing ban, which would simply allow rogue CMCs and foreign-based nuisance callers to flourish, says Nick Rines Telemarketing may soon be banned as a result...
View ArticleHorwich Farrelly secures sixth fundamental dishonesty finding after motorist...
Horwich Farrelly has secured its sixth fundamental dishonesty finding after an exaggerated PI claim has seen a motorist miss out on £5,000 in genuine compensation and have to pay nearly £3,500 in...
View ArticleAgeas to roll out artificial intelligence in motor claims handling
Ageas is set to be the first UK insurer to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) when handling motor claims. Working in partnership with Tractable, an AI technology specialist company, the insurer will use...
View ArticleLord Justice Jackson plays down possibility of fixed recoverable costs for...
Lord Justice Jackson has played down the possibility of placing clinical negligence cases over £25,000 in a fixed recoverable costs regime. Speaking at the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’...
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