Its areas of expertise also cover shipping - related personal injury and
fatal accident claims such as accidents involving cargo ships and passenger ships, including claims arising from loss of life, medical negligence and class actions arising out of illness and disease outbreaks.
Not exact matches
French motoring advocacy group 40 millions d'automobilistes - 40 million motorists - has criticised the new limit, doubting the objectivity of the government's
claims about the causes of
fatal accidents, and suggesting an independent motoring committee should be set up to study the real causes of
such accidents.
Since many aviation and boat
accidents cause
fatal injuries,
such claims should be handled by a highly qualified personal injury lawyer.
As Coulson J stated, «s 33 only applies to personal injury and
fatal accident claims, not other forms of civil proceedings» and that
such claims «have always been the subject of special rules relating to limitation», that secondly, as evident from countless authorities, «no decision under s 33 can be regarded as setting down definitive guidelines that are automatically applicable in another factual decision; any decision under s 33 has to be regarded as a decision on the particular facts of that case, and nothing more.»