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

Recent data suggests that the government’s whiplash reforms are having long-lasting effects. The data, from the government’s Compensation...

The gap between the number of road traffic accident injuries and the number of motor injury claims continues to widen, according to the...

Consolidation in the clincial negligence market will continue as the market slows over the next couple of years, a report has suggested....

The Supreme Court has ruled that personal injury clients need to have been informed of the solicitors’ bill – and agreed to it – before...

A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a...

Introduction – The extension of fixed recoverable costs 1. Pursuant to Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals from 2017, the civil litigation...

A mental health trust fined over previous patient deaths and subject to investigation over inadequate care has paid out more than £2.5m...

A report has revealed that four serious mistakes known as ‘never events’ took place at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...

A grieving family is seeking long-awaited answers at an inquest into the death of their three-year-old daughter who died after doctors...

A n eight-year-old girl tragically died of sepsis hours after being sent home twice by a GP who advised her mother to hydrate her and...

The increasing rate of clinical negligence claims is indicative of the poor state of the NHS in England, a damning...

New statistics from the Ministry of Justice show an uptick in personal injury claims and continuing challenges with delays and access to...

Claimant and defence chiefs in the clinical negligence sector have announced a renewed commitment to collaboration. The clinical...

Thousands more women deserve compensation for complications from vaginal mesh implants, a leading campaigner has said. Kath Sansom,...

The lobbying battle to persuade the government to reduce clinical negligence costs has begun, with claimant costs already in the line of...

What will the new government do to tackle clinical negligence costs? The financial burden on the NHS remains heavy but will Labour draw...

Claimant costs bills for clinical negligence claims valued up to £25,000 now exceed damages for the first time, according to NHS data....

The Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO) has called on the new Labour government to follow through on a pre- election ...

Any sustained recovery in the personal injury (PI) market “still seems a long way off” given that total claims numbers continue to fall...