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Top judge calls for ABS transparency amid “commercialisation” of PI
Monday, 19 November 2018A Court of Appeal judge has called on legal regulators to make public who owns alternative business structures to bring greater transparency to the personal injury market.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Alternative business structures, Latest news
Personal injury CMC boss jailed for fraud
Friday, 16 November 2018The boss of a personal claims management company, who lived an “extravagant lifestyle”, has been jailed for 21 months after being convicted of fraud.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Regulation
Landmark jail sentence for man who stole client data for CMCs
Tuesday, 13 November 2018A man who passed on thousands of an accident repair company’s customer records to claims management companies has been jailed in a landmark prosecution.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Regulation
He’s back: Ex-Quindell chief Terry invests in claims manager
Tuesday, 6 November 2018Rob Terry, founder and former executive chairman of claims-handling giant Quindell, has invested £750,000 in a claims management joint venture, it has emerged.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Insurers’ claims management work “putting solicitors at risk”
Friday, 26 October 2018Insurers are putting solicitors in potential breach of their code of conduct by passing on work obtained through cold-calling third parties involved in car accidents, it has been claimed.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Regulation
Warning over Civil Liability Bill litigation risk
Thursday, 25 October 2018The government will need to fill in the detail of the Civil Liability Bill carefully to avoid a new outbreak of litigation because of claimants trying to “game the system”.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Civil Liability Bill clears Commons with no exemption for children
Wednesday, 24 October 2018The Civil Liability Bill completed its passage through the House of Commons yesterday, with MPs voting by 294 to 238 to approve its third reading amid “enormous respect” for PI lawyers.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Civil Liability Bill “undermines Lord Chancellor’s oath of office”
Tuesday, 23 October 2018The Civil Liability Bill seriously undermines the oath sworn by Lord Chancellor David Gauke to defend the independence of the judiciary, claimant lawyers have argued.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
Whiplash portal “on track” for April 2020 launch
Thursday, 18 October 2018The man charged with delivering the whiplash portal said yesterday that he expects to meet the timetable of putting it out for testing next autumn and launch in April 2020.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor
PI claimants “increasingly comfortable” with online service
Thursday, 11 October 2018More people than ever are prepared to have their personal injury claim handled completely online, according to research by a leading law firm as it prepares to become ‘small claims ready’.
Tags: personal injury
Posted in Latest news, Market monitor, Technology
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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