Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

The number of new motor injury claims in the first quarter of 2025 – and indeed the number of PI claims in total registered with the CRU – fell to an all-time low.

A law firm boss who told three personal injury clients their cases had succeeded when actually they had not, and even paid them damages, has been struck off.

A senior district judge has criticised the approach of a leading PI firm in racking up costs in a low-value claim, which he suggested might be to guarantee the maximum success fee recovery.

There are now just nine tier 1 medical reporting organisations available on MedCo after one resigned from the system citing payment delays among other issues.

A paralegal has been banned from the profession for fabricating an email in a bid to cover up a mistake she made that led to a case being struck out.

Shine Lawyers, the Australian-listed personal injury and class action law firm, has become what is thought to be the first foreign firm to obtain an ABS licence in the USA.

A chartered legal executive who fabricated court pleadings, expert reports and letters from third parties has been disqualified from working for solicitors’ firms.

The senior judiciary has warned the government not to extend the whiplash tariff to larger or different types of claims, it emerged yesterday.

Solicitors for leading insurers have been accused of data protection breaches in collating evidence about the way a North London firm pursued personal injury claims.

A senior district judge has again attacked credit hire claims, as well as a process-driven approach to bringing them, in a case where he awarded £1,200 for a claim valued at £50,200.