There is growing concern amongst the public after reports of people being ripped off by unscrupulous claims management companies. Some people feel that they have not received the compensation they deserve and others have been alarmed to find that they have taken out loans to cover insurance costs without realising it. Whilst the government has [...]

Central London County Court 6TH December 2010 Miss N was advised by her solicitors to whom she was introduced to by a Claims Management Company (CMC) that they could no longer act for her as the CMC‘s director had been arrested for an allegation of fraud. She was advised to find another law firm to [...]

The question that Claimant lawyers (solicitors / barristers) have oft found themselves confronted with over the past decade (post-Access to Justice Act and Woolf reforms significantly) is in fact whether we, as lawyers practising in the field of personal injury, are merely feeding off the misery of others. I do not agree that we are [...]

In April 2010 the fixed fees (predictable costs) regime will be amended for road traffic accident claims. Following nearly two years of negotiation and protracted discussion the various parties (Claimant solicitors represented mainly by APIL, MASS and the TUC against the Defendant Insurance Companies primarily represented by the MIB, FOIL and the ABI) have finally [...]

ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS – CHANGES TO THE WAY LAWYERS ARE PAID AND HOW THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR CLAIM FOR PERSONAL INJURY In April 2010 the fixed fees (predictable costs) regime will be amended for road traffic accident claims. Following nearly two years of negotiation and protracted discussion the various parties (Claimant solicitors represented mainly by [...]

We have had nearly a 100 enquiries recently from Claimants who had contacted a well known claims management company. It is now alleged that this claims management company had created some 1,400 false personal injury claims which they have sold to unsuspecting solicitors. Many of these claims may be genuine and yet the Claimants have [...]