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Insurers run out of excuses for high premiums as awards for compensation close to 15-year low (via Independent.ie)
In the first six months of this year, the average award through the PIAB scheme to claimants was €14,786 The number of personal injury compensation claims this year is expected to be at the lowest level for 15 years, with pressure mounting on insurers to start putting money back into the pockets of policyholders. Thousands […]
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Man loses €60,000 personal injury case against Dublin’s Merrion Inn (via Irish Times)
Michael Ryan (67), from Booterstown, uses crutches to walk and alleged that he slipped on wet tiles in pub’s accessible toilet A Dublin man, who uses crutches to walk, has lost a €60,000 personal injuries claim against the owners of Dublin’s Merrion Inn over a fall in the pub’s accessible toilet. Michael Ryan (67), of […]
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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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Mean PIAB award down 38%, with 75% below €15,000 (via The Law Society)
The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) says that its average award in the first six months of this year was €14,786. It says that this was 38% below the figure for 2020, when the Book of Quantum was being used to assess awards for personal-injury claims. In April 2021, the new Personal Injury Guidelines adopted […]
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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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€15m maternity hospital settlement for boy with autism is biggest of its kind (via Independent.ie)
The High Court has approved a €15m settlement in a case in which a hospital apologised to a teenage boy with autism and his family for the failings in care after his birth. HIs counsel, Dr John O’Mahony SC, with Cian O’Mahony BL, told the court it was the biggest settlement in such a case […]
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‘What harm would it have done for HSE to say sorry?’ – Family of cervical cancer victim settle legal action over alleged misdiagnosis (via Independent.ie)
The widower of a woman who died of cervical cancer has settled a High Court action over the alleged misdiagnosis of her smear slide for €675,000. Microbiologist and mother-of-five Elaine Flannery, mother of singer songwriter Mick Flannery, was 59 when she died from metastatic cervical cancer in October 2014. Her widower David Flannery (70), a […]
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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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Kerry boy (12) left with brain injury after car crash settles case for almost €10m (via Breaking News.ie)
A 12-year-old boy who, when he was a baby suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was propelled from a car as it suddenly went out of control and struck a ditch, has settled a High Court action for almost €10 million. Patrick O’Leary from Listowel in Kerry was just nine months old and sitting […]
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Worker withdraws personal injuries claim after forgetting alleged accident date (via Irish Times)
Zoubir Guelmi claimed he suffered back injuries as a result of an accident on warehouse floor 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 […]
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High Court uses new guidelines to award €87,000 to carer knocked off her bike (via Irish Times)
Cyclist fractured her wrist and clavicle in the 2019 accident in Summerhill, Dublin The High Court has awarded €87,000 to a woman for injuries she suffered when she was knocked off her bicycle by a van. Giving his ruling on Thursday, Mr Justice Michael Hanna said this was the first case that he was required […]
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