Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

Claimants pursuing cases through the Official Injury Claim portal have received £130m in its first two years – but their lawyers remain very unhappy with the system.

The extension of fixed recoverable costs later this year will lead to “poor behaviours” and a decade of litigation to clarify how they work, the new president of APIL has predicted.

Anexo Group – the AIM-listed business that combines credit hire and legal services – saw revenue and profit increase sharply last year, driven by major growth in its legal division.

The number of motor injury claims reported to the Compensation Recovery Unit fell to their lowest first-quarter level ever this year, new figures have shown.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is seeking an amendment to a data protection bill currently going through the House of Commons to ban all cold calling.

The biggest specialist serious injury firm in the country is working on ways to harness the power of technology related to ChatGPT to help it handle medical negligence claims.

A man who learnt that his lower leg needed amputating seven years after settling his personal injury claim is not prevented by limitation from suing his lawyers for negligence.

Just 12 law firms are responsible for 83% of claims lodged with the OIC portal as its impact on reshaping the personal injury market is laid clear by the results of leading practices.

A claims management company had an agreement with a well-known law firm to receive 17.5% of the fees for high-value personal injury cases it referred, the High Court has ruled.

A protocol agreed in the wake of Covid-19 to better manage clinical negligence claims during the pandemic is remaining in place after it appeared to reduce the number of contested cases.

The ruling of a district judge highlighting apparent collusion between solicitors, medical experts and others in inflating a personal injury claim is an important landmark in the fight against fraud.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority should investigate a personal injury firm involved in “layering” a claim with further costs, given evidence that this is a pattern of behaviour..

The insurance industry has sought permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling on mixed injury claims in the Official Injury Claim portal to the Supreme Court.

MPs have today launched an inquiry into how the whiplash reforms are working, including the impact on the number of claims and whether they ensure access to justice.

A solicitor who “shattered” public trust in the profession by making a fake personal injury claim through the law firm where he worked has been struck off.