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• Ban on PI adverts in hospitals ‘unworkable’

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email Banning leaflets advertising personal injury lawyers and claims management companies from NHS hospitals is unworkable and counter-productive, the government has been warned. Health minister Simon Burns last week told English NHS hospitals it ...
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• Bury’s Fairfield Hospital pays £3.35m for Adam Spinks’ claim

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   A man who was brain damaged at birth in a Bury hospital more than 20 years ago has received a £3.35m settlement payment from the NHS. Adam Spinks, 24, who has cerebral palsy, was born at Fairfield Hospital in December 1986. Mr Spinks’ ...
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• Incertezze

  
  Volantinoweb — Authority: 124
  Luca e Francesca sono una coppia di sposini, si amano moltissimo ma non riescono ad avere un bambino, quindi si recano da un ginecologo. Quindi il dottore gli domanda: “ma voi la sera prima di andare a dormire cosa fate?” E loro: “Bè ci biaciamo, guardiamo un po la tv poi andiamo a letto, ci baciamo e ...
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• Health and safety guru warns of political misuse

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   The architect of the government’s health and safety strategy has raised concerns that his report could be ‘misused’ for political purposes. Professor Ragnar Lofstedt told a forum in London on Tuesday that he was not in favour of ...
  2 weeks ago

• £185m rescue for NHS litigation fund

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   The Department of Health has confirmed that a £185m emergency bailout fund has been found for the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA). Clinical negligence claims against the NHS reached an estimated value of £1bn last year, after rising from ...
  2 weeks ago

• More patients sue plastic surgeons over faulty cosmetic operations

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Growing numbers of patients are suing plastic surgeons over mistakes during operations designed to improve their appearance, according to the Medical Defence Union, which represents over half of Britain’s doctors and surgeons when they ...
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• MASS “cautiously” welcomes transport committee report

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   The Motor Accident Solicitors Society said it cautiously welcomes the Transport Select Committee’s follow-up report on the cost of motor insurance published today, but warned that there is still a long way to go in “dispelling the ...
  2 weeks ago

• GPs reveal steep rise in patients with ‘bogus’ injuries

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Medical professionals are witnessing a sharp rise in the number of patients attempting to make fraudulent claims, with 60% of GPs surveyed by LV reporting an increase unscrupulous activity relating to car accident injuries. According to ...
  2 weeks ago

• APIL Statement on the cost of motor insurance

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   COST OF MOTOR INSURANCE:  Statement from the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers in response to report from the House of Commons Transport Committee We have long said that the answer to increases in car insurance premiums lies in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jack Straw discusses whiplash claims on BBC’s ‘Today’

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Jack  Straw appeared on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ show this morning, telling presenter Sarah Montague that there are “huge profits to be made”. Listen to the interview here Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asbestos fund still on agenda, says government

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   The government has assured people suffering from asbestos-related disease that a ‘fund of last resort’ is still on the agenda, nearly two years after a report called for its creation. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) minister ...
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• NewLaw makes ABS move

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Cardiff-based firm NewLaw has confirmed it is among 44 ­organisations that have so far applied for alternative business structure status through the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The personal injury firm, established in 2004, submitted ...
  3 weeks ago

• PI firms inundated over banned implants

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Personal injury firms say they are receiving hundreds of enquiries every week from women treated with now banned PIP breast implants. Up to 40,000 women in the UK have been fitted with implants made by French company Poly Implant Prothese. ...
  3 weeks ago

• ABI Responds to Transport Select Committee Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Responding to the publication today of the Transport Select Committee report on the cost of motor insurance, Nick Starling, Director of General Insurance at the ABI, said: “We are pleased that the Transport Select Committee has ...
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• Curb sharp practices and impose tougher compensation threshold for whiplash say MPs

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   MPs have called on the insurance industry to abandon sharp practices in the management of car accident claims to curb the runaway cost of motor insurance premiums. The cross party Transport Committee has also called for the Government to ...
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• RTA Portal – Response to possible extension of PI Claims Protocol

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   While no specific details are available, the announcement by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, late last week suggested potential plans to extend the current RTA PI scheme. The Independent Chair of RTA Portal Co, Tim Wallis, responded by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Defendants must put their own house in order, APIL tells Daily Mail

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   Costs can be minimised if defendants stop delaying liability admissions, APIL president David Bott said in a recent article in the Daily Mail. In rebuttal of comments which attacked the costs of claims for injuries suffered in schools, ...
  4 weeks ago

• APIL criticises health and safety announcement

  
  Insurance Medical Group — Authority: 110
  Tweet Follow @InsMedGroup Subscribe to IMG Medico-Legal News by Email   The Government is trying to “push through too many swathing changes” to health and safety and civil litigation at once, APIL president David Bott said last night. In response to an announcement by the Prime Minister, which included ...
  4 weeks ago

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