February
Articles matching "motor"
CMA - Private Motor Insurance Market Investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority will provide its provisional decision on remedies tomorrow.
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Key changes ahead on fraudulent injury claims
It’s not usually on a Saturday that Government makes an announcement of another potentially significant reform affecting the handling of all types of injury claims, but that’s what took place this…
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The search for reform in fraud goes on
Yesterday’s announcement that the Law Commission would not recommend to the Lord Chancellor that “Fraud by victims of personal injury” should be a project for inclusion in the 12th Programme of Law…
Read more“Fundamental dishonesty” – what it might mean
The Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting regime was introduced in personal injury cases on 1st April 2013, but ahead of its introduction many people expressed concern that offering claimants the…
Read moreThe use of expert evidence in fraud cases - an emerging trend?
Since the implementation of the Jackson Reforms and certainly since Mitchell, the Courts have adopted a stricter approach to following the CPR. Is that stricter approach now beginning to inform the…
Read moreWhiplash consultation: the key theme from the Ministry of Justice Open Forum
At the open forum hosted by the MoJ, members of the claimant solicitor community suggested that the current system of expert reporting in whiplash cases worked well and that there was simply no need…
Read moreCompetition Commission: market investigation into private motor insurance
Competition Commission has now reported following its investigation into the private motor insurance market by publishing its provisional findings together with details of possible remedies. Nigel…
Read moreThe future of whiplash claims handling
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for everyone concerned with the future of motor bodily injury claims handling. After the parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall, Nigel Teasdale suggests that now is…
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