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"Adding Insult to Injury”
12th September, 2019
It has been reported by the MOJ that the average time between a small claim being issued and going to trial has reached the highest level this century over the past year. This news must come as yet another blow to
More...Costs Victory – round three to the Claimant…
13th August, 2019
The landmark Court of Appeal judgment in West v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Demouilpied v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has been hailed as a victory for access to justice for the victims of clinical negligence. These two cases were heard
More...Happiness is…"A positive Cash Flow”
4th July, 2019
With regulatory changes continuing to eat into claimant law firm’s profit and cash flow the recent Court of Appeal Judgment in I v Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust provides some clarity for both claimant and defendant firms when
More...When a little damage can go a long way!
17th May, 2019
As an After the Event (ATE) Insurer one might expect us to see a higher number of claims in which fundamental dishonesty has been alleged, or intimated in every other way by a Defendant without them actually stating "fundamental dishonesty”. We
More...Does Loyalty Pay in Motor Insurance?
9th May, 2019
I write this having recently had to renew my car insurance. I am one of those who will shop around to see if there is better deal elsewhere but I was also intrigued by new research coming from the Association
More...Agency Fees and PI claims
23rd April, 2019
It has long been the case that solicitors involved in PI claims, have instructed agencies to obtain medical notes and records as part of their service when providing medical reports. It saved the solicitor the time of requesting and obtaining the
More...Uplifting news post LASPO
5th April, 2019
Background The Court of Appeal’s decision in Herbert v HH Law [ https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/527.html ] has now arrived and many law firms across the country will be taking stock to review the decision and their respective practice
More...Bringing Personal injury Claims into Disrepute
19th March, 2019
A recent news article from across the Irish Sea has found its way to us of a failed whiplash type injury claim, in which the Claimant had alleged that he had suffered life changing injury as a result of a
More...This is a journey into money...
8th March, 2019
Harry Enfield’s character ‘Loads of Money’ may have fitted in well at the payday lender Wonga before they collapsed into Administration. But now, according to a committee of MPs those who had previously borrowed from them and had subsequently appli
More...It Wasn’t Me Driving – Honest Guv!
27th February, 2019
The case of Cameron v Liverpool Insurance Co Ltd recently went to the Supreme Court to consider whether the victim of a hit-and-run collision is entitled to bring a claim for damages against an unnamed Defendant, when the third party
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