Injury Compensation Claims: Time Limit Traps to Watch
Statute of Limitations The term Statue of Limitations refers to the law which states the length of time a person has to make a personal injury compensation claim following an accident. If not made within the appropriate time, the claim is lost no matter how serious the injury may be. In most personal injury claims, […]
Compensation claims involving uninsured (or traceable) drivers
A road traffic accident is an extremely traumatic experience. Apart from serious injury, shock and distress is the added burden of medical bills, car repairs/replacement, loss of earnings and so on. It is for this reason we have insurance and where the other party is at fault a claim for compensation can be made against […]
State Benefits Claw-Back in Personal Injury Compensation Claims
As we are all well aware our cash-strapped Government has been searching high and low for new streams of revenue in taxes and other charges and the Department of Social Protection has now got in on the act. Under the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013 new provisions are coming into effect which allow the […]
Compensation Claims and The Injury Board
In dealing with Personal Injury claims I am often asked what exactly the “Injury Board” is and what it has to do with compensation claims. It might be useful, therefore, to set out briefly the history and function of the Injury Board, formerly known as the Personal Injury Assessment Board. The Board was set up […]