We’ve all heard the one about the lady that sued McDonald’s after spilling hot coffee all over herself back in 1992. But hers is far from the most ridiculous case brought to court over the past few decades. Stella Liebeck’s coffee case was, in fact, much more serious than the public gave her credit for. [...]
A teacher has been awarded £230,000 after he slipped on a sachet of tomato ketchup in a school corridor. He suffered severe injuries in the fall as he was walking out of the staff room at a secondary school in Essex. The personal injury claim was settled outside court by council chiefs who believed they [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]