A 27-year-old married man from Cameroon who is living in Dublin has withdrawn a €60,000 damages claim against the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland who had appeared on behalf of an uninsured driver following an alleged rear-ending accident.

A group of Romanians, mainly based in Galway, had been linked to Irish Travellers in an utterly dishonest scam of staging car crashes to mount fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge stated yesterday.

The widow of a solicitor who died after an operation to prevent blushing yesterday settled a High Court action for damages for €5m.

SOLICITORS who specialise in personal injury claims are threatening to go to the High Court to test the legality of strict new regulations which ban advertising of their services.