Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

A High Court judge was wrong to refuse an adjournment sought by parents of a brain-damaged baby who lost their legal representation shortly before a hearing on withdrawing treatment.

“Potentially hostile foreign powers” could identify weaknesses in the Official Injury Claim portal and flood it with “fraudulent claims”, a report has warned.

Leading law firm Irwin Mitchell was not under a duty to advise a prospective client to notify their travel agent about an accident on holiday until the retainer was signed, the High Court has ruled.

Insurance specialist firm Horwich Farrelly has developed an automated system which uses AI to help insurers identify potentially high-value personal injury claims in portals for low-value cases.

The volume and value of motor insurance claim frauds fell last year, which also covered the first seven months of the Official Injury Claim portal.

The use of “fast and fair resolution” meetings has allowed the law firm that runs more clinical negligence cases than any other to settle a higher-than-average number.

Many fixed recoverable costs for personal injury cases have not been increased since 2013 and are in need of “immediate review”, the Association of Consumer Support Organisations has said.

Inadequate medical reports for claims pursued via the Official Injury Claim portal are causing unnecessary disputes over non-tariff injuries, a leading defendant law firm has said.

Little progress has been made in the plan to take test cases of so-called mixed claims from the Official Injury Claim portal to the Court of Appeal, it admitted yesterday.

National Accident Helpline has stopped accepting road traffic claims which only attract tariff damages through the Official Injury Claim portal, its listed parent company revealed today.

Clinical negligence law firms earned around £1.4bn in fees during 2021/22, an 8% increase on the year before, according to new research that also predicted Covid could lead to more claims.

NHS Resolution concluded a record 77% of claims without court proceedings in the last year but both claimant and defendant legal costs rose, its annual report has revealed.

A Court of Appeal ruling that the wording of a settlement of a personal injury claim supplanted fixed costs could have “significant” implications, including for cases that have already settled.

Frenkel Topping – the listed business building a full-service offering to personal injury and clinical negligence claimants short of actual legal advice – is raising £10m to fund further acquisitions.

The value of the medico-legal market fell by a further 5% last year, after shrinking by 18% during 2020, a report has found, with the lower end hit by the whiplash reforms and court delays.