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News Roundup
2nd August 2017
Electric cars cost 50% more to insure
In charts: how car insurance premiums have risen to an all-time high
UK insurers await verdict on payouts to accident victims
21st July 2017
Rising insurance costs drive young off the road
How greedy firms have fleeced us in the last 10 years
Revealed: the age groups hardest hit by rising car insurance costs
Prangs bump up premiums for faultless
Car insurance premiums in record rise, says ABI
Cost of UK car insurance leaps 11% to record high
Insurers to blame for record motor insurance costs not compensation awards
14th July 2017
Report firms making fraudulent holiday claims – claimant group
MoJ to pursue fixed costs regime for holiday sickness claims
Car insurance premium rises sting motorists in their 50s hardest
Young people ‘priced out of driving’ as cost of insurance and tuition soars
Insurer blames injury claims industry for data thefts
7th July 2017
Government admits it cannot produce ‘robust’ PI claims data
Government backs away from cold call ban for CMCs
5th July 2017
Car insurance bills bump up by a fifth
Government admits it cannot produce ‘robust’ PI claims data
4th July 2017
Victims to miss out on fair compensation after crackdown on whiplash claims
Compensation reform ‘penalises the majority’ – lawyers
Government PI reforms will push 80% of RTA cases into small claims court, research finds
3rd July 2017
21st June 2017
Queen’s speech: Labour condemns whiplash plans
Fake whiplash claims crackdown makes it to Queen’s Speech
Government resurrects whiplash reform
Queen’s Speech: Government to press ahead with PI reform and court modernisation
Queen’s speech confirms whiplash reform and court modernisation
13th June 2017
Election result makes whiplash reform less likely to go through in proposed form
12th June 2017
Liz Truss replaced as Justice Secretary in reshuffle
Truss out as Lidington becomes new Lord Chancellor
David Lidington – another non-lawyer – is new lord chancellor
9th June 2017
Report firms making fraudulent holiday claims – claimant group
Claimant lawyers urge colleagues to tell SRA about firms running bogus holiday sickness claims
Hung parliament deals blow to justice reforms
Blog: Cooperation will stymie claims touts and dodgy claimant firms
5th June 2017
18th May 2017
Tories pledge whiplash reform and “stronger” legal services regulation
Tories ‘consider’ ban on personal injury cold calling
9th May 2017
Politicians demand heavy fines for insurers overpricing loyal customers – report
30th April 2017
Government has no evidential justification on which to progress with PI reforms, says Thompsons
21st April 2017
20th April 2017
Prisons and Courts Bill dropped
Will pre-election ‘wash-up’ wash out the government’s PI reforms?
Election question mark over courts bill
11th April 2017
Car insurance premiums ‘jump by £110’
Insurers must stomach compensation reforms, says uSwitch
Blog: Injured claimants are not lobby fodder
Insurance companies made to come clean
Car insurance rises by 9.4% – and there’s more to come, says Consumer Intelligence
29th March 2017
Insurers urge MPs to close whiplash “loophole” in Prison and Courts Bill
21st March 2017
“We’ve gone for moderate options to reform PI,” says justice minister
Courts bill proceeds unscathed but Labour threatens to table amendments
20th March 2017
Government PI reforms will hand insurers windfall of up to £700m, say economists
MPs launch inquiry into government’s personal injury reforms
Car insurance: Economists debunk industry claims whiplash crackdown will result in lower premiums
16th March 2017
The UK Is Raising The Small Claims Limit For Victims of Negligence
2nd March 2017
MPs warn government that PI reforms “risk injustice for genuine claimants”
Lawyers vow to fight on over small claims curbs
PI firms will have ‘no other choice but to close’ following whiplash reform
23rd February 2017
Government unveils whiplash bill
PI reforms in full – fixed whiplash damages to start at £225, 1 October 2018 start date
Government to raise small claims track limit for whiplash to £5000
Government to bring in fixed tariffs for whiplash pay-outs
Government presses ahead with whiplash reforms – but gives ground on other PI claims
Courts bill: claimants ‘extremely disappointed’ by PI reforms
Courts bill: MoJ confirms sweeping PI reforms for October 2018
20th February 2017
16th February 2017
Access To Workplace Justice At Threat
Road accident victim speaks out against government proposals to increase the small claims limit
Drivers face further insurance price hikes as insurers backtrack on premium reduction promise
8th February 2017
Insurance boss queries blanket increase in small claims limit
Forensic MPs finally nail insurers over their PI spin
Bob Neill MP: MoJ ‘firing in wrong direction’
MoJ “firing in wrong direction” on PI reforms, says justice committee chair
3rd February 2017
PI reforms could make justice system “unworkable”, district judges tell government
Post Power List 2017: A2J Andrew Twambley
Motor insurance premiums hit record high, as cars go hi tech
Former mayor speaks out against government proposals
26th January 2017
Raise the small claims limit, say leading claimant PI lawyers with alternative reform plan
24th January 2017
PI reforms could cost 28,000 UK law firm jobs, warn economists
Car insurance costs rising ‘five times faster than train fares’
23rd January 2017
Warning of tens of thousands of UK jobs losses from personal injury legal reforms
1,700 Mersey law jobs ‘at risk’ in law reforms, campaigners say
“Thousands of jobs at risk” from PI reforms, economists warn
Eight out of 10 PI jobs at risk from whiplash reforms
Economists say PI reforms will put 35,000 jobs at risk
Whiplash crackdown could cost 35,000 jobs, lawyers claim
20th January 2017
Judiciary issues warning to government over impact of PI reform
Blog: Let’s create a cross-industry body to push anti-fraud reforms
19th January 2017
Judges ‘dismayed’ by government’s whiplash proposals, say it will clog up courts
Government “cherrypicking misleading figures” to push PI reforms
Your Thoughts: What Might Be The Impact Of The UK’s Cuts To Whiplash Claims?
Whiplash legislation ‘will commence’ later this month, minister says
16th January 2017
6,000 say no to whiplash compensation law changes that would stop injured cyclists recovering costs
These PI reforms ignore the most vulnerable road users
Minister shows no sign of budging over PI reforms
Confused.com says car insurance premiums are soaring, as insurers try to deflect blame
9th January 2017
Government forecast on impact of PI reforms “skewed against lawyers”, say economists
Christina Rees: Tory insurance reforms will feed more cream to the fat cats
Solicitors flood MoJ with whiplash protests on consultation D-day
5th January 2017
Insurers won’t pass on whiplash savings
Insurers, not lawyers, are the bad guys when it comes to whiplash
Whiplash reforms treat victims ‘like an inconvenience’
3rd January 2017
Insurers hit loyal customers with huge price rises
Changes would be a licence for insurers to under-settle
Lawyers urge Lord Chancellor to rethink whiplash reforms
News Roundup 2016