Personal Injury Claims
The personal injury claims market has been fairly active of late due to government intervention on issues such as the Ogden rate. In reality the government will never please personal injury claim solicitors/claimants and insurance companies/defendants, because each is pursuing a very different agenda. So, what is the Ogden rate and will recent changes have [...]
We live in a world where our dependence on online services and the Internet continues to grow. Whether you are checking emails on your phone, visiting a website on your computer or reading news stories on your tablet, the Internet is everywhere. As a consequence, in the very near future the subject of personal injury [...]
Those who follow the personal injury claims industry will be aware that the UK government has now decided to delay implementation of reforms announced back in 2015 until at least 2020. While very few parties will disagree with the theory behind the reforms, it is the way in which they were going to be brought [...]
In this weeks blog post we will be covering the grey area of shared negligence as well as small claims and regulatory changes, which are under attack within the Houses of Parliament. Despite the fact that the UK government had seemingly pushed through an array of changes, due to go live in 2019, there seems [...]
In reality the 2016 referendum on European Union membership will impact every single area of business and personal life in the UK, one way or another. The task of unpicking a relationship that began more than 40 years ago will be a challenge to say the least. One area which has come under scrutiny of [...]
After initial proposals were released back in 2016 the UK government is finally on the verge of bringing changes to the personal injury law into force. The Civil Liability Bill is currently going through the House of Lords and should the rubber stamped into UK law in the short term. This will impact the way [...]
When you visit your doctor you are entitled to expect a degree of competence and a diagnosis which you can trust. It is well documented that the NHS is under budgetary pressures as the UK population continues to grow and age and the cost of treatment continues to rise. For many people, claiming for medical [...]
As pressure starts to reduce a little on the NHS after a torrid winter period the challenges facing public health services in England are becoming more evident. While it will depend upon which documents you read (and possibly your political leanings), the NHS budget for England in 2017/18 will be around £122 billion, or £2,200 [...]
One of the hottest topics in the area of personal injury claims currently is holiday sickness claims with ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) recently publishing an array of feedback from its membership. We have covered holiday sickness claims in the past but it appears that fraudulent activity continues to grow with many claimants unaware [...]
The subject of increasing holiday sickness claims among UK holidaymakers has been headline news for some time now. Finally it seems that the UK government has woken up to a loophole which means that currently there are no limits to payouts by travel companies where the incident happened on foreign soil. The recent raft of [...]
