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Legal charities urge government to delay whiplash reforms
Tuesday, 13 August 2019Four leading legal charities have urged the government to delay next year’s whiplash reforms over fears that litigants in person and the organisations supporting them will be overwhelmed by the new regime.
Tags: personal injury
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MoJ official “confident” of hitting April 2020 deadline for PI reform
Wednesday, 31 July 2019The civil servant overseeing the Civil Liability Act reforms yesterday declared his confidence that the 6 April 2020 target for implementation would be met. But he stressed that “ministers will not rush this”.
Tags: personal injury
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Credit hire and repair costs “recoverable under new portal”
Tuesday, 23 July 2019PI claimants will be able to recover credit hire and repair costs under the new regime due to come into force next April if the total value of the claim does not exceed £10,000, it has emerged.
Tags: personal injury
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Revealed: Children to be exempt from whiplash portal – for now
Monday, 8 July 2019Children and protected parties are to be exempt from the increase in the small claims limit and the new whiplash portal – at least for now – Legal Futures can reveal. We also have more detail on the portal build.
Tags: personal injury
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CMC boss faces £1.4m confiscation order over illegal PI data
Monday, 1 July 2019A man found guilty of illegally obtaining people’s personal data and selling it to personal injury solicitors has been fined for breaches of data protection and issued with a £1.4m confiscation order.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Regulation
Anger with MoJ over whiplash reforms begins to boil over
Wednesday, 26 June 2019Both the claimant and defendant representatives have expressed frustration with the progress of the government’s whiplash reforms, and doubted it will be ready for April 2020 as planned.
Tags: personal injury
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Lawyers catalogue problems with whiplash portal build
Friday, 14 June 2019Solicitors have criticised the Ministry of Justice for cutting corners in developing the new whiplash portal “in order to meet the politically driven deadline of April 2020” – and suggested it still cannot be met.
Tags: personal injury
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Insurers agree to be bound by ADR in new whiplash system
Thursday, 13 June 2019Defendant insurers have agreed to be bound by the outcome of the alternative dispute resolution process being built into the new whiplash system, it has emerged.
Tags: personal injury
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MIB gives first sight of “customer journey” in whiplash portal
Monday, 10 June 2019The Motor Insurers Bureau has laid out a draft “customer journey” for those bringing claims through the new whiplash portal from next April, which it said should help law firms develop their own systems.
Tags: personal injury
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Number of PI claims “largely static” over past year
Friday, 31 May 2019The number of personal injury claims registered with the Compensation Recovery Unit increased marginally over the last year, but still remain low compared to recent history.
Tags: personal injury
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