Claim nation: Awards have been cut, now insurers must slash premiums
Until recently Irish awards for the bread and butter of personal injury claims - soft tissue injuries like whiplash - were notoriously high (an average of roughly €23,000 in 2018). File photo
From car accidents to workplace falls, in Ireland the sums handed out to injured plaintiffs for injuries across the spectrum of severity and situation have been a bugbear, in different ways, for multiple vested interests - the legal profession, insurance providers and brokers, and of course Government - for years now.
Like most complex subjects, the figures on the surface bely the contributing factors below.
