The current financial crisis has led to a large increase in the number of compensation claims being lodged in the UK. Road accidents and public liability claims have soared in recent months, as a result of damage to roads caused by the winter’s cold weather. The public themselves have not been helping the situation either, [...]
A concert-goer has been awarded €15,000 in damages after she suffered whiplash injuries at a Rod Stewart concert in Dublin in 2005. Sally Price, a lifelong fan of the 64-year-old singer, was struck by a football that Stewart had kicked towards the audience at the Point Depot concert. A tradition that the rocker has been [...]
A man who suffered spinal injuries during a five-a-side football match has been granted the right to appeal against the court decision saying he would not be allowed to seek financial compensation. Andrew Kerr was tackled whilst playing football at a sports centre in Littleborough in February 2005. The tackle caused Mr Kerr to collide [...]
A WIDE-RANGING survey has concluded that there are significant problems with personal injury laws and the US jury system. Legal Prudence and the American Jury identified the spread of plaintiff-unfriendly legal practices as one of the major problems facing the civil justice system. It said that major corporations, along with other pro-business proponents of tort [...]
THE Louisville Zoo has been named by personal injury lawyers in two actions following the derailment of its miniature train at the start of June. Some 22 of the 30 passengers on board at the time of the accident suffered personal injuries, with 17 of them children. However, while 15 of that number were treated [...]
WOMEN are responsible for almost three quarters of personal injury claims that take place in public areas, the Irish Injuries Board has found. While women account for some 70% of personal injury claims, the total value of public liability awards made in the two years to December 2008 was €65.4 million. Some 56% of personal [...]
WITH social networking taking a greater importance role in our lives, sites like Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being used against claimants in personal injury cases to have them thrown out. Now some personal injury lawyers are advising their clients to stay away from such sites as the legal process goes ahead, and have issued [...]
THE French government has for the first time in nearly 50 years agreed to pay personal injury compensation to people affected by fallout from its nuclear tests. The country has carried out 210 such tests since its first, exploded in the Algerian Desert in 1960, but has until now refused to pay out on personal [...]
PEOPLE bringing personal injury claims against US car giants General Motors and Chrysler have asked Congress to ensure that their cases won’t be forgotten and compensation can still be awarded after both companies filed for bankrupcy. A number of consumer groups who have examined Chrysler’s bankrupcy ruling, which took place in New York at the [...]
FOUR men have been found liable for causing personal injury in one of Northern Ireland’s worst bombings – the first time that personal injury legislation has been successfully brought involving a terrorist attack. Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy, Seamus Daly and the Real IRA liable were found culpable in various ways for the Omagh [...]