Whiplash
Transport Select Committee whiplash inquiry offers fresh hope to PI lawyers
Personal injury lawyers are hopeful the Transport Select Committee’s fresh inquiry into whiplash – launched a week after the Ministry of Justice closed its own consultation – will provide their businesses with a lifeline. This comes as a group of law…
AA Insurance boss puzzled by timing of Transport Committee inquiry
AA Insurance director Simon Douglas has raised questions over the timing of a Transport Select Committee inquiry calling for evidence on reducing the number and costs of whiplash claims.
Zurich calls for advance way of diagnosing whiplash
Zurich has welcomed the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into whiplash and called for a more advanced way of diagnosing and proving whiplash injuries.
Transport Select Committee seeks further whiplash feedback
The Transport Select Committee has responded to debate triggered by the Ministry of Justice’s whiplash consultation paper by calling for evidence on reducing the number and cost of whiplash claims.
View from the Top: Correcting the balance
Cut the middle man out of motor insurance for lower premiums and better service, says Dominic Clayden.
Improving Underwriting: The extra mile
The use of geographic intelligence can improve the understanding of risk in the motor insurance space.
Mass warns against red tape resulting from medical panels
The Motor Accident Solicitors Society has backed in principle proposals put forward by the Association of British Insurers calling for accredited medical experts to assess whiplash injuries.
Apil: Insurers will ‘call the shots’ under whiplash proposals
Insurance companies are set to “do the best for themselves” by paying less than the fair level of personal injury compensation in the small claims court, according to the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
ABI demands accredited whiplash examinations
Whiplash injuries would be assessed by an accredited medical expert under new proposals published by the Association of British Insurers.
Mass warns of unintended consequences of MoJ whiplash proposals
The Motor Accident Solicitors Society has urged the Ministry of Justice to reconsider its proposals to raise the small claims limit and introduce “cumbersome” medical panels and reporting amid fears of unintended negative consequences.
Zurich wins crash-for-cash conviction
The driver of a Porsche who has admitted deliberately causing a crash with a council van has secured the City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department its first crash-for-cash conviction.
View from the Top: Take a note out of Beefy’s book
The consumer benefits most when motor insurers work together, says Ian Currie, UK motor and injury claims director at RSA.
Motor Claims 2013: Aviva and Apil clash over whiplash medical evidence
Aviva claims director Dominic Clayden has questioned whether medical evidence should be a requirement for all low-level whiplash claims after expressing disillusionment with the current system.
Motor Claims 2013: Canada PI fee cap could be emulated
Canada may hold the key to regulatory reform of personal injury motor claims, according to Enterprise liability claims and risk manager Nigel Goodall.
Mass: 'Aviva has identified the problem but not the solution'
Access to independent legal advice is likely to lower the number of fraudulent and whiplash claims, according to the Motor Accident Solicitors Society.
Aviva calls for third-party ban in motor claims process
Aviva has launched a fresh attack on personal injury law firms, which it accuses of adding £1.5bn – or £118 per motor premium – in unnecessary costs to the motor insurance claims process.
Motor Claims 2013: Panellists at loggerheads over credibility of medical evidence
Aviva claims director Dominic Clayden has questioned whether medical evidence is required in all low level whiplash claims, after expressing disillusionment with the current system.
Axa completes global whiplash study
Axa is to present a study of global whiplash regulation and statistics to MPs, lawyers and other experts at a discussion breakfast in the Houses of Parliament tomorrow.
View from the Top: The whiplash gold rush
Insurers must ‘respond vigorously’ to glut of spurious last-ditch claims ahead of Laspo implementation.
Your say: A step in the right direction
I was interested to read Tony Emms' contribution to the debate on the increase in the small claims limit for whiplash claims, says Tom Jones.
View from the Top: Seize the moment
New year, new impetus for motor insurers to be ambitious and press for further change, says Andrew Torrance.
Editor's comment: Prioritising prevention
There are occasions when expert commentators would prefer their long-term predictions to never come true.
View from the top: Brave new pain-free world?
A balance must be struck to protect genuine whiplash claims while reducing frequency and cost, says Tony Emms.
Claimant view: David v Goliath
Genuine claimants are made to suffer by the government's 'draconian measures' in support of insurers, says Tom Jones.