The Accident Claimline Blog

On 20 July 2010, double Olympic gold medalist James Cracknell sustained a brain injury after being hit by a petrol tanker on his bike, leaving him unable to smell or, subsequently, taste.  This poses the question: what is it like to live without...

The Law Society has told the Transport Select Committee's inquiry that hearing only one side of the argument on whiplash claims will penalise genuine accident victims. In a letter to Ms Louise Ellman MP, chair of the Transport Select Committee, the ...

The former owners of a Buckinghamshire care home have been sentenced for serious safety failings after a frail 76-year-old woman died following a fall from a hoist.  Aylesbury Crown Court was told that Mrs Barbara Kilty, who had been resident at...

The Law Society has warned that rushed implementation of Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentence and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) risks adding to costs and clogging up the civil courts. In a letter to Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary and Lord ...

Vulnerable people with serious injuries should not be forced to invest in volatile stock markets to ensure they have enough money to meet their future needs, lawyers have said. The Government is currently consulting on how deductions from the damages...