Straw calls for 50% cut in personal injury solicitors’ fees
Jack Straw, the former Home Secretary, wants to see the government cut in half the amount of money personal injury solicitors receive when they administer motor insurance injury claims.
View ArticleLabour Party cashes in on no win no fee referrals
At the beginning of this week, the Daily Mail reported that the Labour Party is cashing in from ambulance chasing personal injury solicitors.
View ArticleDudley Council throws out 55% of personal injury claims
Dudley Council has thrown out around 55 per cent of the 830 personal injury claims that have been made against it since the beginning of 2008, claiming that unscrupulous personal injury solicitors have...
View ArticleNo win no fee lawyers fight hard for their clients, experts say
While no win no fee lawyers have been on the receiving end of a bit of grief recently thanks to the Government and news media bemoaning the rise of the so-called 'compensation culture,' these personal...
View ArticlePersonal injury solicitors make £1.2bn from miners
Two miners' personal injury compensation schemes have resulted in personal injury solicitors making more than £1.2 billion in legal fees, it has recently been revealed.
View ArticleNo win no fee lawyers must not advertise in NHS trusts
Personal injury solicitors may be interested to learn that NHS trusts have been told to take down advertisements promoting their no win no fee services.
View ArticleUK crowned ‘whiplash capital of Europe’
Thanks to the 1,500 personal injury claims made every day for loss of earnings and emotional and physical damage caused by car accidents, the UK has been crowned the 'whiplash capital of Europe,'...
View ArticleLegal fees total six times personal injury compensation award!
Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, has slammed the system that allows personal injury solicitors to charge fees of £74,000 when the compensation awarded to their client was less than £13,000.
View ArticlePersonal injury solicitors feeling financial pressures
Personal injury solicitor firms are feeling the heat in the current economic landscape, as highlighted by the sudden death of one Manchester-based firm's staff being made redundant and its ongoing...
View ArticleGovernment needs to tackle no win no fee lawyers
The Government needs to take on no win no fee lawyers that are driving the compensation and personal injury claims culture in the UK, according to the North Lincs Health and Safety Group's chairman,...
View ArticleGovernment crackdown to be too ‘bureaucratic?’
There are fears that the Government's planned crackdown on whiplash-related personal injury claims will be too bureaucratic, according to Jonathan Willett, director for the Teeside office of Henderson...
View ArticleThe world goes mad ahead of next April
It seems like everyone's gone barmy when it comes to personal injury compensation, just because of the new Legal Aid law that's going into effect in April of 2013 - and apparently insanity is a bit...
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