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More injury claimants opt for court
ALMOST EUR114m now lies uncollected in claims from the Personal Injuries Assessment Board because injured parties were unhappy with their payouts and have decided to go to court. Up to 40 per cent of claimants are walking away from the Personal Injuries Assessment...
Refused Compensation Claims to Drop
THE number of compensation awards refused by claimants against the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) is expected to drop significantly following the introduction of new legislation, it was predicted yesterday. PIAB chief executive Patricia Byron expressed...
PIAB in move to include legal fees in claims
INSURANCE companies who are being sued through the State's Personal Injuries Assessment Board will be forced to pay the legal costs of "vulnerable" accident victims and others who have difficulty accessing the lawyer-free claims service. In a...
No reason to up costs, insurance firms told
October 18 2007 INSURANCE companies claim to have cut motor insurance premiums by up to 10pc this year and have been warned there is little justification for future increases. A survey by consultants Deloitte showed that 80pc of insurers said that they had cut...
Medical Negligence Limitation Period Reduced to 2 years
Pursuant to Section 7 of the Courts and Civil Liability Act, 2004, the limitation period to pursue a medical negligence action has been reduced from 3 years to 2 years, from the date of knowledge of the medical misadventure event. In short, as soon as you believe that...
Govt facing EUR250m bill for personal injury claims
Govt facing €250m bill for personal injury claims The Government is facing a bill of €250m in personal injury claims, according to the latest figures. Three-thousand six hundred people are currently taking cases against the State. 72% of claims involve the...
Consultants Seek Medical Court to tackle Litigation
Hospital consultants will ask the government to stem the rising cost of medical litigation by introducing a compensation body modelled on the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB). Finbarr Fitzpatrick, secretary general of the Irish Hospital Consultants'...
NI drivers still paying more
Motorists in Northern Ireland are still paying significantly more for car insurance than their UK counterparts, the Automobile Association has said. According to a new insurance comparison given to the BBC by the AA, premiums in NI are at least 10% higher than the...
Insurers should pass on savings to consumers
The chairperson of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB), Dorothea Dowling, confirmed the public’s suspicion that insurance companies were not passing on all savings to consumers, despite lower insurance for motorists at present. She put it rather more...
Consumer body calls for monitoring of legal profession
An independent regulatory body to oversee the legal profession must now be established, the Consumers Association of Ireland has said, The association slammed recent revelations that certain solicitors, who having been paid their full fees by the Residential...