Opinion
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Opinion
The risk of lowball offers in personal injury cases
There are cases where setting an extremely low anchor in a joint settlement meeting is justified, but in the majority of cases it is a poor opening gambit.
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Truth at a premium. Again
Association of British Insurers unveils a ‘10-point plan for reducing motor premiums’.
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Paul, Polmear and Purchase
Supreme Court's long-awaited landmark judgment on secondary victim claims in medical negligence has shocked the legal profession.
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Child sexual abuse inquiry: survivors have waited long enough
Government launched the inquiry in an attempt to put things right for some of the most wronged people in our society, yet the sound of dragging heels is deafening.
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Letters roundup: 29 September
Police and disclosure duties, exposing dangerous rhetoric and portal pains: your letters to the editor.
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Maternity failings are now sadly all too familiar
Medical negligence solicitors are seeing the same mistakes made again and again.
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NHS Resolution underlines the value of collaboration
Covid protocol should become a stable and permanent part of the way we do things.
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Discount rate review puts claimant damages at risk
The coming debate will be fierce between insurers and solicitors, but the economy skews the argument.
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Time for a rethink on extending fixed costs
MoJ's decision to press ‘pause’ on the extension of fixed costs is wise. Should it now press the 'delete' button?
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Belsner takes a bite out of 'cannibal' legal industry
Belsner v Cam Legal Services: What exactly did the Court of Appeal decide?
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PI firms on the edge cannot wait for mixed claim perfection
The market is being paralysed by an issue that is dividing the personal injury sector.
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NHS litigation: grounds for optimism
NHSR Advise, Resolve and Learn 2025 must continue the transition from litigation to other forms of ADR.
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Truss may have one unlikely group in a cold sweat
New prime minister's stint as lord chancellor was brief, but she did manage to pick a fight with the insurance lobby.
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Letters roundup: 24 June 2022
Human rights pledge, gender debate, SLAPPs, and putting patients first; your letters to the editor.
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Opinion
Bringing a clin neg claim – it could easily have been me
Arguments that frame cases as a ‘drain on the NHS’ are promoted by people who have not experienced the fallout of clinical negligence.
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Opinion
First year of RTA portal was great for insurers: what next?
Number of claims down, firms dropping out, claimants in limbo. For insurers, the portal worked like a charm.
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Jeremy Hunt’s handy sword of Damocles
Proposals by chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee represent an overhaul of the way compensation is awarded when injury is caused by the NHS.
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A lesson from Bott v Ryanair? People just want a lawyer
Ryanair and the RTA Portal were supposed to make firms go away. It hasn’t worked.