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Personal injury multi-track code

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 31 2008

A number of Claimant firms have signed up to a voluntary code of practice that will be run on a pilot basis, commencing this spring

Got it covered: solicitors’ PI insurance will cover awards for service-level complaints

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 2 2009

Many solicitors seem to be unaware that their professional indemnity cover includes 'any amount paid or payable in accordance with the recommendation of the Legal Services Ombudsman or any other regulatory authority to the same extent as it indemnifies the insured against civil liability'

Shapoor v Promo Designs and Motor Insurers Bureau

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 12 2009

On 8 January 2006 a car driven by Mr Shapoor was involved in a collision with a car owned by Promo Designs and driven by Mr Anwar

MoJ’s response to consultation: personal injury claims process & case track limits

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 21 2008

The Government have today published the long awaited and overdue response following the lengthy consultation process carried out last year

Crash for cash scam man jailed

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 13 2009

A 24-year-old man has been jailed for four and a half years after admitting his part in a £1.6m "crash for cash" conspiracy in Greater Manchester

O’Beirne v Hudson 9.2.10: the fact that a consent order provided for "standard basis" costs did not prevent a defendant arguing on an assessment of costs that "small claims" costs should apply

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2010

The Claimant suffered injury in a minor RTA

McDonnell and another v Walker

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 11 2009

On 24 April 2001, Mr McDonnell was the driver of a car which was in collision with a car being driven by Mr Walker

Wilkinson v Churchill Insurance Company Ltd; Evans v Equity Claims Ltd 19.5.10

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 15 2010

Where a person insured to drive a car is a passenger in the car which he has permitted to be driven by a non-insured driver, and is injured through the negligence of the driver, by virtue of s.151(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA) the insurer is bound to compensate the passenger

Reducing liability for NHS charges

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 12 2010

Following legislative changes in recent years, defendants and their insurers will know that NHS charges are now recoverable in all personal injury cases, where the accident occurred on or after 29 January 2007

Professional indemnity insurer has no right of access to an insured solicitors’ confidential client papers where no claim has been made

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 24 2010

Quinn's insured, a two-partner solicitors' practice, South Bank Solicitors (SBS), was subject to an intervention by the Law Society, which took custody of all SBS's client files