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Law Society chief executive Desmond Hudson told the Transport Select Committee this week that Claims Management Companies should be closed down, as the selling of claims by insurance companies may have contributed to exaggeration and fraud. “Aggressive marketing by Claims Management Companies is at the core of the problem,” he said.“These companies add nothing to…
Let’s work together to help genuine whiplash victims As a Solicitor committed to helping people with genuine injuries, I worry that the public perception of whiplash claims means injured people are resented for, and discouraged from, making claims, while the real problem of fraud is overlooked. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has a…
Claimants need ‘compassion’ in midst of reforms Government reforms of personal injury litigation will have a lasting and detrimental impact on injured claimants, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) argued yesterday at an industry event. Speaking at insurance journal Post Magazine’s Claims Club event, APIL executive committee member Jonathan Wheeler explained that reforms in…
The Whiplash Report 2012 New evidence about whiplash claims was launched by Association of Personal Injury Lawyers in Parliament today. The Whiplash Report 2012 dispels common myths about whiplash claims with the aim of clearing the way for sensible debate about the issue, and was presented to MPs and peers at a parliamentary reception hosted…
Rethink on criminal injuries compensation welcomed A decision by the Government to reconsider the proposals to cut compensation payments for victims of crime has been welcomed by ASD. A committee of MPs which met on Monday was expected to rubberstamp the proposals to end payments below £2,500 and significantly reduce payments below £11,000. But newly…
Increase in General damages of 10% to take affect from 1st April next year The Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Maurice Kay, vice-president of the Court of Appeal, this morning announced a ten per cent increase in general damages, a key proposal of the Jackson report, from 1 April…
The other fixed costs regime Paul Jones highlights technical challenges to the MoJ scheme that will face an uphill struggle: As the debate surrounding reform to the legal costs system continues, fixed costs are often held out as a solution to many of the woes of the existing system and, in the area of Road…
Richard Meggitt, Solicitor for ASD supports the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) campaign to ensure that there is a compensation fund of last resort for workplace claims. In many cases injured Claimants go uncompensated due to their employer being either uninsured, untraced or in breach of the insurance policy resulting in the policy being…
The Access to Justice Act or the no win, no fee law was first proposed in 1999 and came into force in 2000. It was designed to make it easier for those with a genuine personal injury case to be able to make a claim more and reduce the financial burden placed upon the government…
There’s a lot out there about claiming compensation after an accident at work, so much in fact that you can feel flooded with jargon terms like ‘no win, no fee’, ‘personal injury claim’ and the like. Below is an easy summary of the criterion needed to make a personal injury claim and some advice about…