Currently, only 23% of new vehicles available in the U.K. have AEB fitted as standard or as an option, notes an ABI statement issued last week. This is despite research from The Motor Insurance Repair and Research Centre (Thatcham) demonstrating that AEB could lead to an 18% reduction in personal injury claims following road traffic [...]
Personal injury litigation is always deeply interconnected with what is happening in society. Torts that could not have been conceived of just a couple generations ago, such as “wrongful birth” (for mistakes in prenatal testing) or “bullying” (based on new anti-bullying laws) are now very much a part of the legal landscape. So it is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]