Personal Injury

• Administrators Win On Claims Management Costs

• Insurers take on administrators and lose

• Asbestos Claim From 1960's Succeeds

• Government should have known of asbestos risks

• Asbestos Litigation Disappointment

• Asbestos Claimants lose out

• Asbestosis Sufferers Get Protection If Dock Workers

• Government loses fight against asbestos claims from workers it took over

• Better Ways To Get Compensation?

• Government consults on new ways to dal with PI claims.

• Bid to Speed Up Mesothelioma Compensation

• Mesothelioma compensation scheme announced

• Claims Management Firms Regulated At Last

• Claims management firms to be controlled - does it just apply to PI claims

• Claims Managers to get Their Just Desserts?

• Plans to regulate Claims managers move onward

• Claims managers to be managed at last

• The Government steps in to appoint claims management controllers

• Clarification of Role of MIB in Culpable Passenger Cases

• Can the MIB refuse claim because the inured passenger knew the driver was not insured?

• Compensation Act - How Solicitors May Act

• Law Society issues advice about the Compensation Act due to come into force soon.

• Compensation Act Published

• Here it is at last, the Compensation Act

• Compensation Act Update

• COmpensation Bill receives Royal Assent

• Conditional Fee Setback - Again

• The Court of Appeal scuppers some solicitors on CFA's

• Corporate Manslaughter Bill Is Passed

• How will the new corporate manslaughter law affect public bodies next year?

• Council Payments for Care not Deductible?

• Should defendants deduct for local authority payments?

• Crime Victims to be Winners?

• Victims Win In Fines Enforcement

• Cycle Law by CycleAid

• A specilaist Cycle Law Site or a PI advert?

• Defendant Changed Late After Mistake

• Good news for claimant who sued the wrong defendant in vaccination case

• Disappointment for Abuse Victims

• New decision upholds limitation periods for old abuse cases, with Lawindexpro version too

• Does Insurance Cover Abusive Behaviour by Employees?

• Insurance does cover acts of abuse by employees with some exceptions

• EU Denounces Government Safety Laws

• Health & Safety laws not strict enough

• Employer Liable For Driver's Tiredness

• Court of Appeal extends employer's liablity for negligent driver

• Expert To Disclose Conflict of Interests

• Court of Appeal criticises expert in PI case

• Experts Allowed To Dispute Low Speed Whiplash Claim

• Experts called to question low speed whiplash claim

• Flooded Road Liability

• Local highway authority liable for floods caused by agency failure to unblock drain

• Forum Decides Quantum Calculation

• Foreign Accident case tried in UK gets UK damages quantum

• Good News for Asbestos Sufferers

• Even more good works for asbestos illness sufferers

• Government Cuts Its Injustice Losses

• Government reduces its bill for miscarriages of justice

• Hate Crime Victims Get Help

• More money for victims, or window dressing?

• Health Records of Deceased Clients

• Law Society announcement about health records

• Health and Safety at Work - Defences

• Health and Safety rules do not amount to defence

• Highway Code Unleashed on Cyclists

• Highway Code Revised and updated for first time this century

• House of Lords Kills Asbestosis Case

• House of Lords rejects asbestosis claim

• Injustice Victims Suffer More

• If you were locked up unjustly, would you be happy with this?

• Inside Track - Issue 23

• Law Society Litigation Newsletter

• Law Soc Fights PI Small Claims Changes

• Law Society uses research to show that insurers will be winners if small claims level lowered in PI cases

• Law Society Digs Into Miners' Solicitors

• Law Society Takes On Miners' Solicitors

• Limitation Issue in PI Case

• When can the court over-ride a limitation period?

• Limitation Period Guidance - Old Abuse Allegations

• Limitation period when allegations surface years after the event

• MIB Limitation Period Too Short

• EU rules over-rule MIB limitation period

• MIners' Compensation - Law Society Gets Tough

• Law Society Acts before Commissioner Puts Boot IN

• Mesothelioma Compensation Scheme

• Government Mesothelioma Compensation Scheme announced

• Mesothelioma Scheme Announced

• A new scheme for Mesothelioma Sufferers - will the government learn from the miners' debacle?

• Mesothelioma Scheme Announced - Update

• A new scheme for Mesothelioma Sufferers - will the government learn from the miners' debacle? More information about the scheme

• Mistakes in Naming Defendant Rectifiable Late

• Limitation Period Not lost if need to rename defendant

• More Compensation For The Injured?

• Government consutd on more for relatives / dependants of accident victims

• New Compensation Bill Will Bite

• Compensation Bill will improve things for consumers

• New Pi Publication

• PIBU Law Journal is the new premium version of PI Brief Update.

• Occupiers Liability for Delivery Men

• The worker who makes deliveries to your workers is covered by your occupiers liability insurance

• Old Rule Stops Killer's Claim

• Manslaughter of husband stops wife's pension claim

• PI Claims - Marketeers Or Claims Managers?

• Law Society gives timely warning about need for care when dealing with marketeers

• Payment By Results Guide

• Law Society booklet about CFA's etc

• Peventing Gas Deaths - Industry Callout

• Government thinks it is time we stopped deaths fro gas

• Police Suffer At Hands of Jury

• Jury can have a go at Police Chief

• Prisoner Wins Right to Damages for Prison Move

• Loss of liberty at closed prison leads to damages claim

• Pro Bono Benefits 7/7 Victims

• Law Society lauds PI pro bono lawyers after 7/7 blasts

• Should LA Contributions Reduce Damages?

• Courts confused about role of Local Authorities in personal injury cases

• Slippery Floor In Care Home - Both Sides Trip Up

• Perhaps a surprising result in a slipping case

• Soldier Loses Hearing Case - Or Does He?

• Case remitted to County Court after CA rejects limitation point

• Soldiers To Comply With HR Act Abroad

• Foreigners entitled to Human Rights protection when in hands of UK soldiers

• Solicitors Beware Of Claims Management - Publicity Rules Affected

• Did you know the Compensation Act affects your website and some solicitor marketing schemes?

• Solicitors Not Liable in Negligence Despite Mistake

• Negligence claim fails despite mistake.

• Solicitors Ordered To Pay Appellant's Costs

• Another twist to the CFA costs litigation - solicitors ordered to pay costs of winners because the appeal was really for the benfit of the solicitors not their clients

• Stolen Car Passenger Loses Out

• Should insurers insure the stolen car passenger?

• Suicide Actionable

• Wife wins claim for suicide of husband.

• Suicide As Foreseeable Risk

• Employers liable for suicide after accident

• Suing Dead Rapist - Standard of Proof

• Woman wins substantial damages against estate of dead rapist - Lawindexpro

• Suing English Mercenaries for Compensation - Where and How?

• Failed African coup not justiciable in UK

• Third Party Escapes Liability in Negligence Case

• Evidence saves third patrties from negligence claims

• Top Gear Presenter's Site

• A haven for motor fans or an ego trip for a big head - who cares, its the site where you find the latest news about Richard Hammond.

• UKLawyers Archive of Personal Injury Materials - March 2006

• The collection of all the Personal Injury materials published by us in March 2006

• What is Statutory Duty?

• Do Health & Safety regs form basis for breach of Statutory Duty breaches?

• Work-Induced Nervous Breakdown Was Negligence

• Employer loses case over stress