Personal Injuries

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>The average compensation award for footpath-related injuries increased by 50% in the last year</p>

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Cork council paid out €1.1m compensation for footpath-related injuries in nine months

Average of €33,387 per claim for 34 slips, trips and falls in first nine months of 2022

<p>New guidelines introduced a range of compensation payments for neck injuries, from the most minor (€500) to the most severe (€150,000).</p>

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Personal injury award values drop by €118m in past two years

Fall attributed to decrease in claims during Covid-19 pandemic and changes to damages that should be awarded under guidelines introduced last year

<p>Peter Boland, director of the Alliance for Insurance Reform, said premiums for community groups, and charities continue to spiral, with many finding it difficult to get cover.</p>

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Average Personal Injuries Assessment Board payout down €10k

The average value of each insurance claim payout awarded by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board dropped by over €10,000 in the first eight months after new guidelines came into force.

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Court of Appeal nearly halves damages awarded to Kerry driver in personal injuries case

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Four lose €240k damages claim after judge finds car crash was staged

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Two Tipperary women lose separate damages claims over playground swing injuries

Female Paramedic Helping Male Driver With Whiplash Neck Injury Involved In Road Traffic Accident

Claim nation: Awards have been cut, now insurers must slash premiums

Personal injuries awards have fallen, but will the promised drop in insurance premiums follow? Cianan Brennan investigates

Sat, 17 Jul, 2021

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Claim nation: 'Everyone else was making money out of what had happened to me'

One Cork woman tells of her "hideously stressful" three-year struggle to get compensation from a car accident which in the end she found was “deeply unsatisfactory”.

Sat, 17 Jul, 2021

Claim nation: How personal injuries awards have changed

Two personal injury cases, one from 2017, the second from this week, illustrate the difference in the level of awards for personal injury claims

Sat, 17 Jul, 2021

Waterford woman challenges new personal injury guidelines

She claims that the appropriate awards for the injury she sustained after her fall on a public footpath range from €18,000 to €34,000, rather than the general damages of €3,000

Mon, 12 Jul, 2021

New guidelines aimed at reducing damages 'do not change the law'

Judges are still required to assess damages that are 'fair and reasonable' in individual cases, High Court judge Kevin Cross said

Thu, 22 Apr, 2021

New rules prompt Government calls for lower insurance

Justice Minister Helen McEntee has called on the insurance industry to bring down costs of insurance as new guidelines on personal injury claims come into force on Saturday week

Tue, 13 Apr, 2021

Number of illegal adoptions associated with St Patrick's Guild rises to 151

Tusla had previously established from the records of St Patrick’s Guild that at least 126 births between 1946 and 1969 were incorrectly registered

Tue, 09 Mar, 2021

High Court to hold remote hearings for routine personal injury cases

As a result, a number of cases relating to the CervicalCheck controversy will go ahead

Tue, 26 Jan, 2021

Woman suing UCD compares pain from lifting box of brochures to 'being stabbed in the neck'

A Corporate Relations Manager who claims she injured her neck as she attempted to pick up a box of information leaflets at an event in Budapest to promote UCD has sued the university in the High Court.

Thu, 01 Oct, 2020

Irish Examiner View: High time for cap on personal injury payouts

The report from the Law Reform Commission on capping damages in personal injury claims is a welcome and timely addition to the wider debate about the cost of insurance.

Thu, 01 Oct, 2020

€60k damages case hears Dublin Bus driver 'repeatedly lied'

A Navan-based driver for Dublin Bus, who was held by a judge today to have repeatedly lied under oath in the witness box, has lost a €60,000 rear-ending damages claim and been directed to pay the legal costs and expenses of RSA Insurance which ...

Fri, 24 Jul, 2020

Judge warns potential fraudsters of investigation unit

Anyone thinking of chancing their arm by taking potentially fraudulent claims relating to traffic accidents have been warned by a judge of An Garda Síochána’s intention to set up a special squad to investigate such frauds.

Thu, 08 Nov, 2018