Implementation of the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 has been delayed again and is now unlikely to be commenced until some point next year. Having been fast-tracked through Parliament by the last Government as part of new procedures for non-contentious Law Commission recommendations, the Act first stalled under the coalition Government, which undertook…
After the recent bashing in the press for victims of whiplash claims APIL are starting a campaign to fight back on behalf of whiplash vicitims. APIL wants to take fresh evidence of genuine whiplash injuries to politicians and members of the press. Whiplash claimants have long fallen foul of damaging misinformation which, despite evidence and…
Following a judgment from the Supreme Court allowing asbestos victims to pursue the insurers of their employers who exposed them for compensation, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has called for more support from the Government for sick and dying workers. “Finally, after six years of farce, what had previously been clearly understood has…
I am delighted to have been accepted by the Law Society to be re-accredited to their Personal Injury Panel. This is not something they grant easily and they have to be satisfied that you have a proven track record of cases (which you have to give them details of!). The application alone took 12 hours…
The scientific answer is YES. It is proven in a detailed study by Gordon Bannister a professor of othtopaedic surgery at Bristol Univeristy that an impact of just 2.5 mph is the threshold at which it is possible to cause whiplash injury. Most modern cars have bumpers that are designed to show no damage at…