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 [...]
In the last quarter of 2013, there were just over 4,800 residential property sales recorded which is a 28% increase over the year and a 16% increase over the quarter. The number of sales is the highest quarterly figure since 2007. The figures are published in the Northern Ireland Residential Property Price Index (NI RPPI), [...]
FINE art was the backdrop for legal affairs this week when a sitting of the High Court moved to the award winning venue of the Hunt Museum and Restaurant. Amid valuable paintings from the National Gallery’s Chester Beatty collection along with many items making up the curators choice, legal battles over personal injury claims were [...]
The window of a pensioner killed when a freak wave hit a cruise ship during a storm in the English Channel has said she was offered a 25 per cent off her next holiday as compensation. James Swinstead, 85, died 'almost instantly' after water rushed on board the British cruise ship Marco Polo as it [...]
An Olympic track worker has broken both of his legs and may have a concussion after he was struck by a bobsled. The worker was on the track when he was hit by a forerunning sled near the finish line at the Sanki Sliding Centre, just before the start of today's two-man bobsled training. 'We [...]
The Experts say that the Irish housing market always lags the American market by only 9 months. So we should now be getting ready for the big uplift in the market here in Ireland. On a monthly basis, the number of home loan approvals rose between December and January for the first time in 12 [...]
A WOMAN is facing prosecution for attempting to cheat her driver's theory test. Faria Ali, aged 30, who is originally from Somalia but has an address at the North Circular Road, Dublin has been charged with two counts of attempted deception. The offences allegedly occurred on January 4 and January 31 last at the Driver [...]