As many of you may have read, the Civil Liability Act may be implemented in 2019. If it comes into force in its current form, the Act will increase the small claims limit in Road Traffic Accident claims from £1,000.00 to £5,000.00 for soft tissue injuries. This means that people Read more…
If it comes into force as drafted, the Civil Liability Bill will increase the huge profits of motor insurers like Zurich, AXA, Direct Line, Churchill and others by denying many thousands of innocent victims of road traffic accidents (RTAs) their rights to employ lawyers to pursue their compensations claims. Any Read more…
Once their long summer holidays are over, Parliament will hear the second reading of the Government’s Civil Liability Bill. If passed into legislation in its current draft, it will have major implications for the majority of people who are injured in road traffic accidents (‘RTA’s) . The proposed increase in Read more…
After the summer recess which finishes on 4th September, Parliament will hear the second reading of the Government’s Civil Liability Bill. Whatever the intention of the bill, if it is passed as currently drawn, people who are injured in Road Traffic Accidents and who suffer soft tissue injuries (not fractures Read more…
The Government is apparently concerned about the large number of “whiplash” claims and the associated costs and about the impact of legal costs on motor insurance premiums. The 2015 Government consulted on what it referred to as “a package of measures to crack down on minor, exaggerated and fraudulent soft tissue Read more…
A few years ago, my client who I shall call Miss B was involved in a terrifying road traffic accident in South Yorkshire. She was very young at the time and a rear seat passenger in a car being driven by one of her parents on a dual carriageway. For Read more…