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Government urged to ‘get serious’ with insurers as commercial premiums rise 16%
Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Leo Varadkar has said the process of reform should continue ‘until premiums begin to fall across the board’.
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The imperfect Personal Injuries Assessment Board in Ireland
The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) was established in 2003 as an independent statutory body to provide an alternative process for assessing personal injury claims in Ireland. However, its efficacy and efficiency have been the subject of much debate and criticism. One of the main criticisms of the PIAB is its slow and bureaucratic process. […]
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Man loses €60,000 personal injury case against Dublin’s Merrion Inn
Michael Ryan (67), from Booterstown, uses crutches to walk and alleged that he slipped on wet tiles in pub’s accessible toilet
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Mean PIAB award down 38%, with 75% below €15,000
The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) says that its average award in the first six months of this year was €14,786.
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Average value of compensation awards for personal injuries drops 38%
Report shows rising proportion of claimants accepting awards under new guidelines
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Worker withdraws personal injuries claim after forgetting alleged accident date
Zoubir Guelmi’s job with XPO was to clean trays mainly supplied to Tesco for home and other deliveries. He said that towards the end of his night shift on May 30th, 2015, a pallet of up to 20 cleaned trays was hit by a forklift and an adjoining stack of trays fell on him.
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Kerry boy (12) left with brain injury after car crash settles case for almost €10m
Patrick O’Leary from Listowel, Co Kerry had sued a representative of his late father Patrick O’Leary Senior who was the driver of the car, the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) and Kerry County Council over the accident
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Stop victim-blaming personal injury claimants
VICTIM-blaming is rife and has been for years. If you are fortunate enough to not have witnessed the ugliness of it, you might not yet be familiar with the term. Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or wrongful act is held at fault for what happened to them. It has been amplified […]
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Bill to overhaul Garda Compensation Scheme completes passage through the Oireachtas
The main objectives of the Bill is to reduce the length of time it takes for compensation claims to be dealt with.
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Meat factory worker settles action over ‘devastating’ mincing machine injury
Settlement between Liffey Meats and Johnwin Turner reflected finding of 25% contributory negligence on part of plaintiff
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Failed challenge to personal injuries guidelines could be heard as ‘leapfrog’ appeal by Supreme Court
Case may bypass Court of Appeal and be heard directly by Supreme Court
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Judges slashed damages for minor personal injuries under an unconstitutional law, court told
The law requiring judges to prepare new guidelines on personal injury damages does not say minor injury awards should be cut by more than 40 per cent and the Minister for Justice “must have thought all her Christmases came together” when that happened, the High Court has heard. Feichín McDonagh SC said despite the State’s “Greek chorus” […]
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