New faces appointed to APIL executive committee
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has announced three new faces to its executive committee following its annual elections. Oonagh McClure, managing partner at Thompsons NI, will...
View ArticleAviva report: UK adults estimate that just 47% of individual protection...
UK adults estimate that just 47% of individual protection claims are ever paid out, according to a report from Aviva. However, the insurance company has also revealed that public opinion does not match...
View ArticleThompsons Solicitors joins RoadPeace’s legal panel
Thompsons Solicitors has joined the legal panel for RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims. As part of the national RoadPeace legal panel, Thompsons will bring a track record of...
View ArticleUK discount rate must better reflect investment strategies, says...
The UK discount rate must better reflect investment strategies, be subject to regular review and set by a politically accountable minister. The three demands have come from the International...
View ArticleARAG passes 100 staff mark with senior claims handler appointments
Leading legal expenses and assistance provider ARAG has taken the company’s headcount beyond 100 staff with three key appointments to its claims handling teams. Lee Michael, Bianca Allison and Roberta...
View ArticleScottish firm Drummond Miller selects Eclipse’s Proclaim practice management...
Scottish firm Drummond Miller, has selected the Proclaim Practice Management system from Eclipse Legal Systems, the sole Law Society Endorsed legal software provider. With offices in six locations...
View ArticleInsurance Fraud Bureau secures 500th conviction following crash for cash...
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has reached its 500th conviction after a crash for cash gang was found guilty of deliberately causing a crash in Warwickshire. The main orchestrator of the fraud, Amar...
View ArticleCEGA enhances fraud investigation capabilities for Charles Taylor General...
CEGA Special Investigations has partnered with Charles Taylor General Adjusting Services (CTGAS) to add insurance fraud investigation services to Charles Taylor’s loss adjusting capabilities. Both...
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Former doctor joins Exchange Chambers
Exchange Chambers has welcomed clinical negligence specialist Dr Simon Fox QC to its ranks. Fox qualified first as a doctor at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and worked in the UK, New...
View ArticleDate confirmed for 2018 clinical negligence Claims Media conference
Next year’s clinical negligence Claims Media conference will take place on 28 February 2018 in Manchester at the Midland Hotel. The conference will once again see some of the country’s top clinical...
View ArticleMild winter keeps property claim numbers down but IPT tax rise means increase...
Increases in Insurance Premium Tax are driving up home insurance prices despite the mild winter keeping claim costs down, according to Consumer Intelligence. The insurance market research company has...
View ArticleMedCo Suspends Users for Failing to Upload Medical Case Data
Following reminder communications earlier this year and subsequent warning letters, MedCo has taken enforcement action and suspended 23 Medical Reporting Organisations [MROs] and 14 Direct Medical...
View ArticleHodge Jones & Allen promotes clinical negligence lawyer to partnership
London law firm Hodge Jones & Allen has promoted a clinical negligence lawyer to its partnership. Emma Wray joined the partnership in late May, bringing the number of partners at the firm to 41 and...
View ArticleFamilies to be held hostage under birth injury scheme, says APIL
Families could be pressurised out of pursuing funds they need for long-term care of injured and brain damaged babies if a proposed redress scheme is adopted by the next Government. The warning has come...
View ArticleHorwich Farrelly warns of potential impact that data regulations could have...
Horwich Farrelly has warned insurers that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force in a year’s time on 25 May 2018, could have serious repercussions on counter fraud...
View ArticleACL warns solicitors that they have four months to prepare for electronic...
Solicitors need to get to grips with the electronic bill of costs as soon as possible after the Civil Procedure Rule Committee decided that it will become compulsory in the Senior Courts Costs Office...
View ArticleLife insurance fraud: dead or alive?
Mike Preston on why successfully faking a death to carry out life insurance fraud is pure fantasy in today’s digital era Faking your death in order to live off the ill-gotten proceeds of falsely...
View ArticleThree insurers take on FLS software to save claim surveyors up to 50% in...
Three insurers in the UK and Europe have adopted scheduling software created by Fast Lean Smart (FLS) in the hope of significantly reducing the amount of time spent on the road by claim surveyors. The...
View ArticleMedCo suspends a further 21 shell companies
MedCo has identified and suspended a further 21 shell companies from its medical report generating system for failing to meet the Revised Qualifying Criteria published by the Ministry of Justice on 25...
View ArticleAmanda Stevens becomes chief executive of Hudgell Solicitors
Hudgell Solicitors has appointed Amanda Stevens as its new chief executive. Stevens, who has a been a manager in the NHS as well as a partner at Charles Russell and Irwin Mitchell, joined the firm in...
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