Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

NHS Resolution has announced the launch of a neutral evaluation scheme and awarded the first two contracts to CEDR and Trust Mediation.

Personal injury lawyers need guidance on transgender claimant compensation following this year’s Supreme Court ruling to avoid possible negligence claims, it was argued this week.

The number of personal injury claims registered with the Compensation Recovery Unit has fallen to a new low this year – 14% below even the worst of the Covid period.

Researchers have raised their estimate for the value of the UK’s medico-legal market in 2024 to £677m, an increase of 4.5% on the previous year.

A High Court judge has described as “extraordinary” the evidence of a solicitor who admitted he was only giving it because he was being paid to do so.

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.