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Will CMCs come to fear the FCA?
The fact that the proposed reform of whiplash claims and the raising of the Small Claims Track limit were both announced by the Chancellor in last year’s Autumn Statement is indicative of the…
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Contrived collision defeated with assistance from engineering expert
A Claimant who brought a suspected fraudulent road traffic accident claim, claiming for personal injury, hire charges in the sum of £56,000 and storage and recovery charges in the sum of over £16,000…
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Telematics evidence defeats 6 claims and ends suspected fraud ring
Telematics evidence used to identify and successfully defend claims arising from a suspected staged accident, saved insurers £1/4m. The telematics data suggested that the collision occurred some…
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Fraudsters ordered to pay £40,000 in exemplary damages
Claimants, who had all lied in an attempt to pursue claims for personal injury from a deliberately induced collision, were ordered to pay a total of £40,000 in exemplary damages after the Judge…
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Review of time-limits for raising claims in court
The Scottish Law Commission is to review time bars on civil actions in Scottish courts. This is the first review of this area in decades. It comes on the back of host of cases which saw litigants…
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Scotland Court reforms
The first summary sheriffs who will sit under the reformed court structure in Scotland have been named.
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Part 36 offer for defendant to accept 95%: was this a genuine attempt to settle?
The issue of whether a Part 36 offer is a “genuine attempt to settle the claim” is not new. The Civil Procedure Rules Committee recognised its importance by including it in the 2015 amendments to Part…
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Part 36 offers and recoverable benefits: when is judgment more advantageous?
Andrew Cousins examines the recent Court of Appeal decision in Crooks v Hendricks Lovell Limited (2016) on whether a claimant who successfully reviewed a Certificate of Recoverable Benefits after…
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Similar fact evidence helps to defeat 12 personal injury claims
Similar fact evidence that demonstrated multiple similarities between 12 suspicious claims was deployed by LV= and led to those claims being successfully defended. The main action, comprising five…
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Insurance Fraud Taskforce have their say
The Insurance Fraud Taskforce have now delivered their final report. Their findings will not come as a surprise, as the Taskforce released their initial recommendations in two tranches over September…
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