Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

The High Court has cleared defendant law firm DWF of data protection breaches in collating evidence about the way North London solicitors pursued personal injury claims.

The motor insurance taskforce should look at increasing penalties for lawyers and doctors assisting in claim fabrication or exaggeration, the FCA said yesterday.

The average time for a low-value motor claim to settle in the Official Injury Claim portal has risen to an extraordinary 609 days – some 20 months.

Private-equity backed Fletchers Group has acquired the 80-strong serious injury practice of national firm Shoosmiths, adding three new offices in the process.

Eight men have been found guilty of a conspiracy to unlawfully obtain data from garages to sell on as potential leads for personal injury claims.

A law firm that continued cases against defendants without investigating claims they were the wrong parties has been ordered to pay wasted costs.

Credit hire organisations are the real beneficiary of claims to recover their charges and so should pay the defendants’ costs when cases fail, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

As consolidation in the personal injury market increases, there are signs that “most of the leading players in the sector are starting to turn a corner”, a report has found.

Abuse of the fundamental dishonesty rules by some defendants in personal injury cases is likely to escalate if regulators do not address the issue, according to APIL.

A private equity firm is poised to bid for Frenkel Topping Group, which seeks to offer everything except legal advice in support of personal injury and clinical negligence victims.