Seven personal injury actions worth up to a total of €420,000 from a 'rear-ending' road traffic accident have been dismissed or withdrawn after a motor assessor told a court that the two cars involved never collided.

The widow of a 39-year-old postman who died after being knocked off his bicycle while on his post round in Limerick has settled a High Court action over his death for €250,000.

A 47-year-old man with 20 previous criminal convictions who sued after he claimed he was knocked off his bicycle by a car which failed to stop has been awarded €20,000 by the High Court.

It was claimed the car which veered across the road and ploughed into Ms Kenneally’s car did so after a psychiatric patient who was a front seat passenger allegedly grabbed the wheel of the car, being driven by his sister.

The driver of a car which crashed into a teacher’s car killing her parents screamed and blacked out when her passenger, a psychiatric patient, allegedly grabbed her steering wheel, the High Court heard today.

A 32-year-old man, who suffered serious brain injuries after the car in which he was a passenger collided with a tree, has settled his High Court damages action for €4.65m.

A woman suing over injuries to her neck and back after a rear-ending incident has denied in the High Court that entries to her Facebook page meant she had done gym workouts since the incident, despite testifying that she had not.

A woman suing over injuries to her neck and back after a rear-ending incident has denied in the High Court that entries to her Facebook page meant she had done gym workouts since the incident, despite testifying that she had not.

An allegedly fraudulent car crash, said to closely fit a pattern of six suspicious accidents that could cost up to €500,000 in damages and costs, was thrown out by a judge yesterday at the request of Zurich Insurance.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been warned squeezed motorists and businesses cannot afford to wait until the end of the year for a review of spiralling insurance costs to be published.

The insurance fund into which policyholders have contributed hundreds of millions of euro made payments totalling €1.4bn to cover failed insurers over the last five years.

Court rejects Motor Insurance Bureau’s appeal related to collapse of Setanta Insurance two years ago

An appeal by the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) against a High Court ruling that it must pay out on outstanding claims following the collapse of the Setanta Insurance Company two years ago has opened before the Court of Appeal.

Three women who were injured in what was described at Limerick Circuit Court as “an incredible” road accident when their SUV was rear-ended by a rented van yesterday received substantial damages. A fourth person who was also in the SUV settled her case.

The Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) has moved to assure the public with outstanding claims against Setanta insurance that they are entitled to have their third party claims paid.

A 37-year-old delivery man who was injured while he was being taken to hospital in an ambulance after falling off his mountain bike has been awarded €27,700 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A former bus driver who has been left in a wheelchair following a car crash had his medical card removed from him earlier this year, the High Court heard yesterday.

A settlement has been reached in the case of a young girl suing her parents after surviving a fatal car crash in Co Longford.

A young girl who survived a fatal car crash in Longford is suing her father who owned the BMW and her mother who was subsequently jailed for dangerous driving.

The High Court has approved an €11.5m personal injuries settlement to a 10-year-old boy who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident, the largest in Irish legal history.

The world of private investigators has been glamorised beyond all sense on-screen and in novels.

A SETTLEMENT of €2.9m was approved by the High Court yesterday in the case of a four-year-old boy blinded and severely brain damaged when an uninsured car, driven by his mother, collided with a wall while he was in the back seat.

A top young Irish cyclist who quit competitive racing following a collision with a French team's service vehicle during an international event has lost his High Court action for damages.

A GROWING number of motorists are no longer renewing their car insurance policies because of worsening economic conditions, according to a senior insurance executive.

A MAN has lost a bid to make a High Court claim for personal injuries against the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland arising out of his involvement in an accident in which he was a passenger in a stolen car.

THE High Court has approved a settlement of €5 million to a 28-year-old woman who sustained serious injuries after the car she was a back-seat passenger in was struck by an uninsured drunk driver who broke a red light.

The High Court has approved a settlement of €5m to a 28-year-old woman who sustained serious injuries after the car in which she was a back-seat passenger was struck by an uninsured drunk driver who broke a red light.

THE combined profits of insurance companies in Ireland declined by 10% to just under €720 million last year.

TRAFFIC collisions involving foreign-registered vehicles are reaching record levels, with about 900 such accidents notified to the authorities during 2006.

PEOPLE injured while travelling in vans or other vehicles not intended for passengers must be compensated, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice decided yesterday.

ALMOST one-in-four foreign-registered cars in Ireland does not comply with vehicle registration requirements, according to the Revenue.

MORE THAN 800 serious road accidents involving non-national drivers were recorded last year as the number of such incidents has shown a strong upward trend since 2003.

LAW-ABIDING drivers will have to fork out extra to pay for compensation awards to victims of some 1,000 hit-and-run incidents being dealt with by insurers.

A LANDMARK ruling against an uninsured driver who injured a pedestrian should help pave the way for cheaper insurance premiums, the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) said yesterday.

THE number of drivers using our roads without insurance is indicative that there are gaps in the system which, as a matter of urgency, need to be closed.

THE number of uninsured drivers on our roads could be cut dramatically if the Government adopted similar legislative changes being planned in Britain to tackle the problem, according to a leading motoring body.

THE Government has been urged to introduce a fresh crackdown on uninsured drivers, including extending the powers of gardaí to seize uninsured vehicles.

VICTIMS of car accidents involving uninsured, foreign and hit-and-run drivers must now report the incident to gardaí within two days to claim any compensation.

Uninsured drivers cost the Irish motoring public up to £95m last year, according to figures from the Irish Insurance Federation.