If you are awarded a large personal injury claim, should you take the money in a lump sum, or should you opt for regular payments? Some of the largest sums awarded in civil actions - on both sides of the Atlantic - are for medical negligence, personal injury, and the like. This is because many [...]
While a judge had commendable goals in declaring an end to lawyers’ practice of reviewing draft expert reports, her recent Superior Court decision may have the unwelcome consequence of affecting who counsel retain as experts. According to Justice Janet Wilson’s conclusions in Moore v. Getahun on Jan. 14, counsel’s practice of reviewing draft expert reports [...]
personal injury claims (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series) Nearly £100,000 was paid by Redbridge Council in compensation for accidents and injuries in schools, new figures show. In the past five years, the authority received 61 personal injury claims, acccording to a freedom of information discolusre to the Employment Law Advisory [...]
Victims need only to prove that the person against whom they are bringing their claim was at least partly to blame for the accident. They don’t have to prove that the other motorist was driving so badly that they committed a road traffic offence." Mr Ryan, who has more than 20 years’ experience representing injured [...]
The Irish Injuries Board released its latest report in October 2013. The report found a significant increase in compensation received by personal injury claimants in 2012 . Injuries Board awards €157m for motor accidents in 2012 From January to July 2013, 5,286 Irish citizens lodged winning claims, which was a 2 percent increase over the [...]
Margaret McErlean told the Belfast Telegraph that she would have settled for a "fraction of the maximum scale amount" if her personal injuries claim against her school had been upheld on Monday. The teacher, who had worked at St Bride's Primary in south Belfast for more than 20 years, slipped and broke her arm in [...]
A man who spent years acting as a supposed advocate for injured motorists may have taken his duties too far. By his own admission, 65-year-old Joseph Haddad persuaded accident victims to not only fabricate injuries but also seek powerful prescription pain killers and unnecessary, often prolonged medical treatment. Although some cases may have at first been legitimate—when Haddad [...]
In forecasting serious asbestos-related claims, some of the country’s largest insurers and consultants appear to be ignoring relevant changes in medical knowledge, demographics and even social media. As a third wave of costly asbestos-related claims strikes the nation in the years ahead, many insurers will be swamped with “unexpected” reserve charges, according to “A Third [...]
Limerick GAA is now counting the cost of the pitch invasion that greeted Limerick’s first Munster SHC title since 1996. Three people have taken personal injury claims against the association after “falls or slips” on the field as close to 30,000 Limerick fans cheered their new hurling heroes. As well as the financial hit to [...]
Small sidewalk plows haven't been able to cut through the thick layer of ice that's built up, and salt isn't effective in melting ice in temperatures below about -18 C or so. "The sidewalk machines don't have a lot of downward pressure, not like a road plow, so you can't really rip up the ice [...]