Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence

The extension of fixed recoverable costs to low value clinical negligence cases could be delayed to 2025 because of continuing issues with the new rules, it has emerged.

The Lord Chancellor has completed his review of the whiplash tariff but it is unclear whether the plan to publish it in early June will now happen because of the election.

The strategy instigated some years ago by NAHL – the AIM-listed personal injury group – to set up its own law firm is really starting to pay off, its annual results showed yesterday.

Legal services revenue increased by more than a third at the AIM-listed Anexo Group last year, while credit hire earnings fell by over 18%.

A solicitor who rejected offers to settle a case without instructions from his client has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Fixed recoverable costs for low-value clinical negligence claims – which were planned for this month – are now likely to come into force in October 2024, it has emerged.

A circuit judge has attacked the “little micro-industry of unknown and unknowable commissions or referral or arrangement fees” in personal injury claims.

The senior partner of a law firm who acted on a bogus whiplash claim arising from an accident in which he was also injured has been cleared of contempt of court.

It is “very difficult to explain” to claimants why they are receiving a “tokenistic tariff amount” for their whiplash injuries, APIL has told the government.

The government today launches a consultation on whether it should be easier to apologise in civil proceedings without admitting liability.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has withdrawn its judicial review against the government challenging aspects of last October’s extension of fixed recoverable costs.

Claimant representatives have called for Official Injury Claim cases stayed pending yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on mixed injuries to progress quickly now that there is certainty.

The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the appeal and cross-appeal against the decision on how judges should value claims that combine both whiplash and non-whiplash injuries. It upheld the approach of District Judge Hennessy at first instance and then the… Read More

At least £284m has been unclaimed from accidents at work in 2023, with workers increasingly reluctant to seek compensation from their employer, according to National Accident Helpline.

The Ministry of Justice has rejected all but some technical changes to the Official Injury Claim portal put forward by both claimant and defendant representatives.