The 15% uplift in the fixed fees for whiplash cases will take effect from 31 May, the fourth anniversary of the Official Injury Claim...

A Derbyshire woman’s £100,000 personal injury claim has been struck out after a judge found she had lied about her injuries and attempted...

As the Official Injury Claim portal reaches its fourth birthday, the Association of Consumer Support Organisations calls for change. ...

An NHS trust has been fined £1.6 million for “avoidable failings” that led to the deaths of three babies in 2021. Nottingham University...

ases going through the personal injury portal set up to simplify the process are now routinely taking more than a year to settle. The...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has had to pay out more than £14m to patients who have lodged claims for surgery errors...

The parents of a little boy who died of sepsis after doctors told them to 'give him Calpol' have won compensation. Daniel Klosi, four,...

The number of road traffic accident claims continued to fall last year, according to official data, but claims for clinical negligence,...

Clinical negligence cases in England involving cerebral palsy have cost the NHS £2.3bn in damages and legal costs over the past five...

More than half of people waiting the longest for pre-planned hospital treatment in England are under the care of just nine hospital...

The UK government has responded to a consultation about changes to the medical reporting process for road traffic accident (RTA)...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has pledged to improve patient safety after paying £92,812 in compensation for retained...

NHS Trusts paid £4.2m in damages for hospital-acquired infection claims, highlighting urgent prevention needs. NHS Trusts across the UK...

APIL urges NHS to prioritise patient safety through a reform strategy including enforcing a legal “duty of candour”. The NHS must make...

The bereaved parents of a toddler who died from the flu after a “catalogue of failings” by a hospital say they are still waiting for...

The government has rejected the arguments of compensators and their lawyers that increasing the fees for medical reports for road traffic...

The value of the medico-legal market grew by 4% in 2024, double the growth rate of the previous year, researchers have estimated. A...

The High Court has rejected the evidence of an expert witness who had “little or no regard” to the Civil Procedure Rules and was “prepared materially to mislead the court”. Mr Justice Martin Spencer also struck out the claims of two of the claimants because, notwithstanding their witness statements, it emerged during cross-examination that they could neither speak nor read English. He described this as “a virtual contempt of the proceedings of this court”. The claims arose f

There has been a recent flurry of press reports of legal cases against healthcare providers in which claimants have been denied...

The prospect of a fixed costs regime being applied to clinical negligence claims appears to be receding, with no progress on fleshing out...