National Accident Helpline leads industry push for blanket ban on nuisance...
More than 70 organisations, including leading law and marketing firms, are calling on the Government to stop nuisance calls by introducing a blanket ban on cold calls in the Autumn Statement later this...
View ArticleGovernment says insurers will pass on £1 billion of savings if whiplash claim...
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said that insurers will be able to pass on £1 billion worth of savings if its proposals to reduce the number of whiplash claims go through. A consultation paper...
View ArticleAccess to Justice group urges MoJ to remember Theresa May’s pledge to “listen...
Access to Justice (A2J), the claimant lawyer lobby group, has called on the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to remember the pledge made by the Prime Minister when she took office to listen to “ordinary...
View ArticleNHS Litigation Authority appoints Dr Mike Durkin as associate non-executive...
The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) has appointed Dr Mike Durkin, the NHS national director for patient safety at NHS Improvement as an associate non-executive director. His appointment comes at a...
View ArticleSwitalskis Solicitors acquires leading clinical negligence, brain and serious...
Switalskis Solicitors has acquired the clinical negligence, brain and serious injury teams from South Yorkshire firm HLW Keeble Hawson. From Monday 21 November, Mark Hollinghurst and Janet Baker will...
View ArticleClaims allocated to the multi-track should be removed from the fixed costs...
The Court of Appeal has decided that claims allocated to the multi-track should be removed from the fixed costs regime. The judgment has been made after an appeal, brought by Nesbit Law Group, led to...
View ArticleSurgeon’s conviction for manslaughter following medical negligence claim is...
A surgeon who was given a two-and-a-half-year prison term after being convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence has had his conviction quashed. Dr. David Sellu, was handed the conviction in...
View Article£17m funding deal supports growth at Express Solicitors
A £17m funding deal has been agreed between specialist personal injury law firm, Express Solicitors and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Established in September 2000 by managing partner James Maxey...
View ArticlePersonal injury small claims limit rise will create David and Goliath...
The Law Society has warned that Government plans to up the small claims limit for personal injury to £5,000 will create a David and Goliath situation where people recovering from their injuries act as...
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Whiplash reforms: Taking away our basic rights
Banning whiplash claims is a violation of our basic rights says Adele Whittle People have been injured through no fault of their own from time immemorial and the modern legal system, for decades now,...
View ArticleClaims Management & Adjusting MD provides expert insight for Channel 5...
Managing Director of Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA), Philip Swift, a former police detective, has provided expert insight for a Channel 5 exposé on crash for cash criminal activity. Swift has...
View ArticleClaims Management Regulator concerned about potential data breaches in...
The Claims Management Regulator has said that it is concerned that some claims management companies (CMCs) may be breaching data rules with their holiday sickness claims marketing. In a bulletin sent...
View ArticleChancellor’s Insurance Premium Tax hike is “astounding” in light of proposed...
Philip Hammond’s decision to raise Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) to 12% from June 2017, while also maintaining that reforms to personal injury claims will deliver lower premiums for motorists has been...
View ArticleFrank Burton QC and Winn Solicitors recognised at the Eclipse Proclaim...
Frank Burton QC from 12 King’s Bench Walk, and Winn Solicitors were singled out for special praise last night at the Eclipse Proclaim Personal Injury Awards. The awards, now in their ninth year, took...
View ArticleGraysons appoints new personal injury partners
Graysons has announced that two of its personal injury solicitors have been promoted to partner. Lucy Flynn and Mark Fisher, have been made partners at the same time in November at the Sheffield firm...
View ArticleSmall claims limit increase to hit 140,000 non-motor cases a year, says...
Government plans to increase the small claims limit to £5,000 for all personal injury claims will impact more than 140,000 non-whiplash related cases every year, such as injuries sustained at work or...
View ArticleVast majority of solicitors don’t stick to their costs budgets, says ACL
Only 2% of solicitors always stick to their cost budgets, according to the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL). The alarming figure has come from a poll carried out by the ACL, which also found that 72%...
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New laws and telematics technology hold the key to the whiplash “epidemic”
Pravar Gautam on how telematics technology can go hand-in-hand with the new proposals for whiplash reform The Government has unveiled plans to tackle what it calls the “unacceptable” claims culture...
View ArticleTomorrow’s FOIL elects Mukesh Kainth as its new President
Mukesh Kainth, an insurance law specialist with Browne Jacobson, has been elected President of Tomorrow’s FOIL, the specialist organisation for junior defendant insurance lawyers. Tomorrow’s FOIL was...
View ArticleNHS trusts are being paid up to £200,000 a year to place adverts from...
NHS trusts are being paid up to £200,000 a year to place adverts from personal injury law firms onto patient advice leaflets. The BBC has reported that some of the trusts use the money to cover staff...
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