Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence


Multi-million-pound campaign aims to remove stigma from PI claims

19 January 2023

National Accident Helpline is launching a multi-million-pound campaign to reassure people who are worried or confused about bringing personal injury claims.


MoJ calls for evidence on dual or multiple discount rates

18 January 2023

The Ministry of Justice yesterday raised the prospect of replacing the single personal injury discount rate with a dual or multiple rates, in the run-up to next year’s full-scale review.


Slater & Gordon accepts £82k fine for Quindell system failures

3 January 2023

Slater & Gordon has accepted a fine of nearly £82,000 for historic shortcomings in the legal services business it acquired from Quindell.


Reality TV star found fundamentally dishonest in PI claim

19 December 2022

A reality TV star has been found fundamentally dishonest in bringing a personal injury claim that was undermined by what he put up on social media from Ibiza in the wake of his accident.


Defunct law firm ordered to pay wasted costs over bogus claim

14 December 2022

Now-defunct law firm Asons, a medical expert and the former boss of a medical agency brought a claim in the name of a man who had no knowledge of it, a judge has ruled.


MoJ: Number of unrepresented claimants is not measure of OIC success

30 November 2022

The fact that fewer than 10% of claimants use the Official Injury Claim portal without legal representation does not mean the system has failed to deliver, the government said yesterday.


Injured patients “should not feel they need a lawyer immediately”

29 November 2022

A campaign group for people injured by their healthcare is calling for more publicly funded advice and advocacy so they no longer feel that they have to go “straight to a lawyer”.


Courts returning “large number” of claims forms for ex-OIC cases

23 November 2022

A large number of claim forms prepared by personal injury solicitors in claims exiting the Official Injury Claim portal are being returned because of errors, it has emerged.


PI firm fails to exclude defendant solicitors’ data on its claims record

22 November 2022

The High Court has rejected a claimant personal injury firm’s objection to witness statements from the opposing solicitors that suggest it may be engaging in fraud.


Belsner faces £130k costs payment but Checkmylegalfees “has a future”

16 November 2022

The Court of Appeal has signalled the possibility of a non-party costs order in the Belsner case after ordering the claimant to make an interim costs payment of £130,000.


Court of Appeal expedites hearing of whiplash mixed claim test cases

11 November 2022

The Court of Appeal is to hear the expedited appeals in the first two cases on mixed injury claims – those involving both whiplash and non-whiplash injuries – in three weeks’ time.


PE firm adds digital marketing business to law firm acquisitions

3 November 2022

Sun Capital – the private equity firm that owns top serious injury law firm Fletchers – has expanded its presence in the law by acquiring a specialist digital marketing agency.


Large PI firm sold in latest post-reform consolidation move

2 November 2022

The consolidation of the personal injury market following the whiplash reforms has continued in the North-West with leading firm Express Solicitors acquiring Michael W Halsall.


Checkmylegalfees comes out fighting after Court of Appeal criticism

28 October 2022

Checkmylegalfees came out fighting yesterday in the wake of the Court of Appeal’s criticism of its business model, pledging to keep on “holding solicitors to account”.


Vos signals end of court challenges to deductions from PI damages

27 October 2022

The possible end of court challenges to solicitors’ deductions from damages and reform of how bills are assessed are the headlines from today’s Court of Appeal ruling in Belsner.

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