Rehabilitation
View from the top: Ending whiplash woes
Whiplash claims are at the core of the spiralling cost of motor insurance and it is incumbent on insurers to get to grips with the problem.
Personal injury - Culture change: Care, not cash
A perceptual shift must occur within the industry as well as across the public and the legal profession to replace cash in personal injury claims with care, argues Andrew Pemberton. Without it, the UK will struggle to escape the blame-and-claim culture…
IUA and ABI to review rehabilitation code
The International Underwriting Association and the Association of British Insurers are set to consider extending the rehabilitation code beyond the immediate needs assessment as part of a new review of the guidelines.
Post in print - 28 October 2010
Senior reporter Dan Dunkley outlines the main news from this week's issue of Post.
Post Europe: An in-depth review of general insurance in Portugal
Although the Portuguese insurance industry is one of the most well-established and resilient in the European Union Sam Barrett explains that it is still facing considerable challenges as the market responds to new legislation.
Case managers: Servants of too many masters?
Andrew Underwood looks at the role played by clinical case managers in the claims process for seriously injured patients and suggests how the system could be improved to benefit claimants.
Rehab firms team up to prevent therapy drift
Rehab providers IPRS and Moving Minds have joined Forces to simultaneously address the physical and psychological needs of individuals in a move they believe will produce “very significant savings” in treatment costs for insurers and other funders.
Merfield hangs up hat at HCML
Helen Merfield, founder and clinical director of HCML, is leaving the rehabilitation provider with immediate effect.
Health insurance - IPT rise: A bitter pill
With the failure of the industry's efforts to persuade the Treasury to freeze, or indeed lower, insurance premium tax on private medical insurance, Veronica Cowan looks at what it would take to lobby more effectively.
Controlling claims costs: The spirit of co-operation
With higher settlements and as claims costs rise, Bob Rabbitts praises insurers, claimant and defendant lawyers, and rehabilitation providers, for putting their differences aside to work together to provide consensus.
Law report: Claimant compensated despite lies over earnings
This law report has been contributed by national law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer.
Corpore ventures into new corporate health services
Rehabilitation and injury management firm Corpore is to extend its range of occupational health services to the corporate market.
British Insurance Awards 2010: Sun never sets on West
MIB chief executive Ashton West has been a tireless leader of moves to embrace rehabilitation and tackle the twin issues of fraud and uninsured drivers, writes Ant Gould.
BMW in rehabilitation deal
Motor manufacturer BMW is poised to save up to £3m after signing up to a back-to-work scheme offered by XL Insurance and rehabilitation specialists IPRS.
Rehabilitation Awards 2010 – Welcome
Guests were welcomed to the Rehabilitation First Awards 2010 in the sumptuous surroundings of Merchant Taylors Hall by the chair of the judging panel, deputy editor of Post Lynn Rouse, who outlined why there should be a real sense of optimism and…
Rehab providers urged to tackle 'therapy drift'
Rehabilitation providers must become more commercial and proportionate in their dealings with injured claimants to prevent "therapy drift" and inflated costs for insurance purchasers.
XL launches claims service
XL Insurance has launched Exclaim, a claims defensibility advice service developed to help companies manage their liability risks and provide a robust claims management process.
Rehabilitation - PAS 150: Starting the journey
In the second article of a two-part series on the new rehabilitation code of practice, Lynn Rouse explores concerns about cost, cohesiveness and potential public sector failure to join their private provider counterparts in the journey to compliance.
View from the top: Keeping the team onside
Compensating those who suffer injury at work and returning them to employment as fast and as safely possible is not only the morally right thing to do, but it is also in the best interest of the insured and their insurer. Nevertheless, average claims…
XL launches claims defensibility service
XL Insurance has launched a claims defensibility service aimed at helping companies manage their liability risks.
Corpore to buy assets
Corpore is to acquire some of the assets of rehabilitation provider, Kynixa.
Adjusting arm swoops after rehab provider goes into admin
Corpore has signed heads of agreement with administrators to acquire some of the assets of rehabilitation provider, Kynixa.
Stevens joins Irwin in 'meeting of minds'
Rehabilitation champion and claimant lawyer Amanda Stevens has left law firm Charles Russell after 13 years to join Irwin Mitchell, in a move that could be viewed as a meeting of minds.
LV strikes deal wiith ISO
The Insurance Services Office, provider of personal injury claims, evaluation solutions and services, has announced that LV has signed a major new contract to use its Claims Outcome Advisor (COA) product suite.