All Personal injury & clinical negligence articles – Page 25
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FeatureCollision course
Personal injury lawyers have endured years of reform seemingly designed to kill off claims supported by legal advice. And there is more to come, reports Melanie Newman
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OpinionHostile approach towards PI claimants does not combat fraud
Claimants should be required to prove their cases, but this must be proportionate.
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FeatureIncinerate and litigate
The potential nuisance, personal injury and health risks associated with the incineration of waste.
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NewsModel for online court moves in to RTA claims
British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal aims to take over 80% of motor vehicle cases in the jurisdiction.
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NewsFirms warned of PI refunds after Herbert case
Solicitor James Green says a new industry may be emerging.
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News
Longer NHS waiting times threaten spike in clin neg claims, warns spending watchdog
Lengthening NHS waiting times could lead to a rise in clinical negligence claims, the public spending watchdog warns today. But the NHS’s understanding of the looming problem is ‘limited’, according to the National Audit Office. In a report, NHS waiting times for elective and cancer treatment, the NAO notes that ...
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NewsMoJ starts countdown clock on discount rate change
Lord chancellor will today announce the immediate start of a review into the adjustment applied to personal injury damages.
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NewsCourt backs recoverability of agency fees in PI claims
Judge allows recovery of ‘reasonable and proportionate’ cost of obtaining records.
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OpinionStruggling after a career break
I need tips on how I can secure employment – full-time or part-time.
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News'Buy any files' firm bets on PI future with Manchester move
'Ideal time for a fresh new legal face in the North West,' says Hudgell Solicitors.
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OpinionMedical negligence and the 'compensation culture'
Adam Kay’s swipe at clinical negligence lawyers in his book ’This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ is unfair.
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Law Report5 November 2018
This week’s starred digests include limitation, administration, vesting in trustee, and business transfer schemes post-Brexit.
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NewsIBA Rome: Artificial intelligence must mean strict liability – and higher insurance premiums
’The law needs to try not to multiply problems of dealing with AI and should not invest AI with legal personality,’ says Nicholas Tse
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OpinionFore! Ryder Cup claim could hinge on the warning
Spectator reportedly considering legal action: what are her chances of success?
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NewsLASPO ban is 'driving referral fees underground'
NHS Resolution says the idea that claimants want to be represented by a firm 300 miles away 'strains credibility'.
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NewsSolicitors' patient data demands anger GPs
Tensions are rising between doctors and solicitors as GP surgeries complain of being bombarded with requests for free copies of patient records.
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OpinionAll about the money
This week’s news tells two very different stories about civil dispute resolution.
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NewsCrash course in whiplash
Last week’s Commons debate on the Civil Liability Bill lasted three-and-a-half hours, forcing MPs to miss the latest episode of Great British Bake Off.
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NewsLiverpool mayor hails ambitious offshoot of US class action firm
Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry joins Liverpool Joe Anderson in lauding SPG Law, which aims to be one the biggest claimant firms in the north-west by the end of the year.