Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

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.

A judge has rejected a potential seven-figure personal injury claim from a solicitor who sustained “a concussive head injury” from a loose door handle at her firm’s offices.

Defendant law firms are making a lot of misleading “noise” about inflation in credit hire rates because “they make their money from litigation”, the CHO has argued.

Listed business NAHL issued bullish predictions for its future yesterday after a “challenging year” that saw falls in revenue and the number of personal injury claims generated.

The revised whiplash tariff received its final parliamentary approval this week, although the Conservatives warned the government that the policy “cannot be left to run on autopilot”.

A claim brought by original law firm members of the Injury Lawyers 4U marketing collective over pricing changes made by its new owners has been thrown out.