LIMERICK recorded the highest number of personal injuries claim per head of population in 2013, the Injuries Board has revealed. Limerick accounted for 788 of the 10,000 personal injury awards made in Ireland last year when the total payout amounted to more than €240 million. This represented a 12 per cent increase from the previous [...]
Slow broadband speeds can wipe as much as 20 per cent off the value of properties and lack of superfast connectivity in an area can be a dealbreaker in house sales, property experts have said. With growing numbers of people going online to perform tasks ranging from working to grocery shopping and streaming entertainment, good [...]
Fewer home insurance claims despite the dismal weather this winter helped Direct Line Insurance Group notch up a sharp rise in profits last year. The insurer, whose brands include Churchill, Privilege and the Green Flag roadside recovery service, said it would pay a final dividend of 8.4 pence per share, 5 per cent higher than [...]
Sales of new homes in January reached their fastest pace since July 2008, reviving hopes of a sturdy recovery in the housing market after growth slowed at the end of last year. New home sales increased 9.6 percent in January to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 468,000, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, easing concerns that [...]
Mortgage approvals for new house purchases climbed to their highest level since September 2007 in January, but lending to companies fell again, industry figures on Tuesday showed. Government incentive schemes such as Help to Buy, which allows buyers to get 95% mortgages, helped drive up gross mortgage borrowing by 38% to £10.8bn during the month [...]
The UK's property market is likely to keep on growing strongly, mortgage lending figures suggest. The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said total mortgage lending by its members was 38% higher in January than a year ago. The number of mortgages for home buyers which were approved, but not yet lent, was up 57% on a [...]
The Injuries Board made 10,656 personal injury awards in 2013, an increase of 5.1pc compared to 2012. According to its annual review, the total value of these awards was €243.5m, an increase of 11.7pc on the €218m awarded in 2012. As the number of accidents remains unchanged, this increase is attributed to a higher proportion [...]
A Constitutional Court ruling this week clears the way for former clients of personal injury lawyers to claim back what is estimated to be many millions of rands of fees charged on a no-win, no-fee basis that exceed those set by law. Personal injury lawyers typically help road accident victims to claim from the Road [...]
Aviva is writing to tens of thousands of motorists after concerns that two employees sold details of people who had recently had accidents to claims companies. Hundreds of them have since received calls from firms to persuade them to make personal injury claims. The employees have been dismissed and police have arrested two people on [...]
Dublin saw a 17 per cent increase in residential property transactions last year compared with 2012, and the total value of those transactions grew by 34 per cent, according to new analysis of the Residential Property Price Register (propertypriceregister.ie). The figures compiled by property website myhome.ie reflected increased activity in the property market with an [...]