leading figure in the insurance industry has suggested it may be time to scale back ambitions for reforming personal injury small claims. The Ministry of Justice has indicated it will increase the small claim limit from £1,000 to £2,000 for employers’ liability and public liability claims – as well pushing the limit to £5,000 for RTA claims.

Insurance companies deal with car accidents all the time, and their process to sweep it away is highly efficient. We hear stories from all over the place about how an insurance company stepped right up and made a very quick compensation payment, then disappeared again before the victim realized that they had been underpaid.

Reforms that are likely to have a dramatic – and possibly catastrophic – effect on the personal injury sector have been delayed a year, the government has confirmed. The Ministry of Justice said the changes introduced through the Civil Liability Bill will ‘fundamentally transform’ how low-value whiplash claims are handled, and it needed to address concerns about access to justice.

British roads are the most congested in Europe, a study of traffic in more than 100 EU cities suggests.

The industry shouldn't be allowed to use false claims as a way to stiff the victims of accidents that are no fault of their own

Campaign group A2J said the government’s plans for personal injury reform could lead to mass redundancies of up to 60,000 people. This will in turn affect income to the Treasury as well as having a knock-on effect on companies receiving outsourced business from law firms, the group said.

The way the Chancellor offtset the alleged savings from denying compensaiton to those suffering soft tissue injuries against a rise in insurnace premium tax is shameful. It's time to make the Government and the insurance industry pay

A collapsed personal injury firm has become one of the first to cite imminent sweeping reforms of the sector as a factor in its demise.

77% of the public do not believe insurance companies will hand customers any savings made from proposed government reforms to personal injury claims, according to new research carried out on behalf of the Access to Justice (A2J) group.

The county court has overturned a decision to penalise a failed personal injury claimant with an order of fundamental dishonesty against her. His Honour Judge Hodge QC, sitting at Manchester Civil Justice Centre (pictured), said District Judge Khan ‘went too far’ in penalising a woman who had made a claim against the restaurant chain La Tasca after claiming to have suffered a fall at its Trafford Centre branch in 2014.