Personal Injury blogs
A tale of LASPO and woe
Over on our Industrial Disease blog, you might have read about the LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders) Bill's ping pong session through the Houses of Parliament.
Last week, the Bill achieved Royal Assent and will now become law. It aims to save £350m...
Could rioters make a Personal Injury claim?
I've been, like I'm sure many of you, following the discussions arising from last August's riots, and potential new procedures and legislation that will arise as a result.
An article in last Monday's Guardian;...
Don’t blame claimants for claiming compensation!
It will happen every few months that a story such as the one below will break in the news, where a group of individuals was awarded a huge sum of money the previous year, thanks to personal injury claims. It will be implied that it is a disgrace that such a large sum of money has been...
Accident scene scanners; helping us to prove liability?
One of the great things about the ongoing advance in technology is that it makes everyone's lives easier and more convenient. For example, thanks to mobile phones, I can get in touch with anyone, whenever I like. E-banking lets me organise my finances without having to be reliant...
Who's paying what to whom?
There's no denying that, in the process of gaining the best compensation possible for our clients, we make some money too. While our older Partners still have vivid memories of the swinging sixties and peace and free love, sadly, a business can't operate on altruism alone if it wants to...
Wanted: A seat at the table
Last week, David Cameron sat down and met with members of the insurance industry at 10 Downing Street to thrash out a possible way of cracking down on the so-called compensation culture currently plaguing the country by seriously tackling whiplash claims.
The classic tea and biscuits...
What's wrong with Personal Injury ads?
I realise that, to many, that's going to sound like a rhetorical question. And indeed, 65% of respondents to a recent YouGov poll have said that Personal Injury TV adverts should be banned.
That figure is certainly quite a blow to us in the Personal Injury business, but (and we...
