Compensation for seriously injured people should continue to be calculated on the assumption that they make risk-free investments with the money, the...
Motorists or passengers who suffer whiplash injuries have had their compensation slashed. Those who are injured for up to three months are now...
The new rigid and derisory levels of compensation for whiplash injuries have nothing to do with putting injured people at the heart of the legal...
From APIL's AGM 2021
Many have voiced their shock, dismay and disappointment at the revelations by BBC Panorama that patient safety issues are being buried in...
People whose lives have been shattered by needless injury have been treated unfairly for too long, says the incoming president of a not-for-profit...
Families of people who have been needlessly killed are subject to a law which is out of touch and unjust, a Cambridge lawyer said today....
A new report published today (28 April) reveals the Government is on the wrong side of popular opinion on compensation for bereaved families....
Proposed whiplash tariffs would be a blunt instrument to deal with a problem that never existed, lawyers have said ahead of parliamentary debates...
APIL Northern Ireland representative Oonagh McClure said: “Finally, there will be some certainty for people with life-long,...
Injured armed forces personnel and veterans will be treated as second class citizens if restrictions to their legal rights are not dropped from a...
Abuse survivors in Scotland must not be forced to sacrifice their legal rights to protect the very organisations which allowed abuse to take place in...
Plans to change the way damages are calculated in Northern Ireland could leave people with life-changing injuries undercompensated and relying on the...
Justice for people injured by off-road vehicles is to be sacrificed in the name of Brexit, lawyers have warned. "The...
New safety measures are needed to protect Scottish homeowners from electrocution and electrical fires, lawyers have...
It can take many years for someone who has suffered sexual abuse as a child to tell a soul about what happened, let alone consider either reporting...
Two things caught my eye in the sector news last week. Firstly, the Government announced a further one-month delay to the whiplash reforms, now...
APIL president Sam Elsby said: “Work on the new system has been dangerously compressed to meet this artificial deadline, so we...
What happens when the personal injury discount rate changes, but everyone knows it will change again in the near future? How does this affect...
Campaigning lawyers representing people with catastrophic injuries have begun a legal challenge against the Department of Justice (DoJ)....
Visit the website for our ambitious, ground-breaking campaign Rebuilding Shattered Lives.
At the end of October, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote to insurers reminding them to ‘review the value of their products in light of the...
After reading a published letter from APIL in his local newspaper, a man with life-changing injuries contacted the APIL office to share his story....
People with life-changing injuries in Northern Ireland are being compensated far less than those in the rest of the UK as the wait continues for a...
A national, public database of recommendations to improve maternity safety in the NHS could spare hundreds of families harm and heartbreak each year,...
Severely injured people should not be forced to gamble compensation for life-changing injuries, lawyers warn in response to a Department of Justice...
Most non-drivers don’t have a clue how to tell if a car is about to reverse into them, new research has found. Only 44 per cent of...
Most parents do not think their children understand road dangers or concentrate properly when near roads, a new survey reveals as pupils prepare to...
Pedestrian safety is the theme of an injury prevention campaign by APIL after research found worrying gaps in road safety knowledge among...
Injury prevention must be treated by Government as a public health priority, lawyers have said in response to a new report published today (Thursday)...
APIL's Severe Injury Help Hub is now live - an online directory of helpful resources for people who suffer severe injuries and for their families.
Compensation claims by armed forces personnel and families for needless injuries and deaths are desperately important, not only to help put shattered...
Head of Public Affairs Lorraine Gwinnutt 0115 943 5400 lorraine.gwinnutt@apil.org.uk
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