Looking ahead

20 Dec 2017

An update on forthcoming cases, consultations, legislation and key developments to look out for.

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Business Innovation to tackle Brain Injury

19 Dec 2017

Innovate UK have recently awarded £15.4M in grants to 60 projects including an interesting award to one project by Cortirio which aims to provide mobile brain scanning technology to enable rapid…

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Ian Slater

Jackson in Action

19 Dec 2017

In our regular monthly round up of cases we look at the effects of the changes to the Civil Procedure Rules under the Jackson Reforms:

Scotland Update

19 Dec 2017

For further information please contact Andrew Lothian, Head of General Insurance (Scotland) on 0131 474 2305, Caroline Coyle, Associate, Professional Support Lawyer Insurance on 0141 228 8132 or Jill…

Prison sentences for nine individuals who attempted to take LV= to the cleaners

18 Dec 2017

Nine individuals who were part of a crash for cash gang that had participated in a conspiracy to defraud LV=, were handed prison sentences for contempt of court. The nine had all made false claims and…

Latest portal data shows short term volumes remain stable though longer term trends continue to be negative, while issued claims are on the increase

14 Dec 2017

The most recent data from Claims Portal for the month of November, as well as from the Ministry of Justice on the number of issued claims for Q3 of 2017, allow an up to date view to be given of the…

A year on: further evidence needed before discount rate changes can go ahead

11 Dec 2017

'Fear of further delay' was the headline response to the Justice Select Committee's report on the proposed discount rate reform. If the Government accepts the recommendations that further evidence…

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2018, the London Market's 'Year One?'

05 Dec 2017

The FCA has published its terms of reference (ToR) for a market study into the wholesale insurance broker market to assess how effectively competition is working in the wholesale insurance broker…