Government proposals to cut fixed fees for low - level road traffic accident (RTA) claims by # 700 could
leave claimant lawyers # 200 out of pocket, according to research commissioned by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
Not exact matches
Claimant lawyers» groups have hit back at insurers» claims that they «manipulate» the system, charge «excessive» fees, and
leave consumers worse off.
The Canadian Association of Refugee
Lawyers (CARL) applauds the Ontario government for agreeing to temporarily fill the gap
left by the federal government's abdication of responsibility to meet the most basic health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee
claimants.
The fact that politicians make politically expedient attacks on
lawyers — whether it be Chris Grayling's recent attack on «
left wing» pressure groups, or Jack Straw's berating «BMW - driving civil liberties
lawyers» — does not mean that
claimant law firms don't have a case to answer in relation to drumming up «spurious claims».
ICBC's
lawyer had failed to respond to the Bill of Costs for months,
leaving the injury
claimant out of pocket, despite the
claimants agreement to settle the case.
A draft Bill to address compensation issues raised by the UK riots of 2011 «could still
leave some
claimants out of pocket», according to a leading insurance
lawyer.
In an environment where it is acceptable for a failing chief executive to
leave one six - figure job and immediately walk into another, the focus on
claimant lawyers as a solution for all the NHS's ills is misguided and disproportionate.
In 1992 I started in personal injury law helping personal injury
claimants and, as a personal injury
lawyer now in British Columbia, injury
claimants tell me that when trying to find the top injury
lawyer in town they are
left frustrated... Many have found me through a friend and very few said that it was easy to find a personal injury
lawyer for their ICBC claim.
The
claimant's solicitors explained the default by indicating that they were a small firm, with two
lawyers on maternity
leave and the pressures of other significant work.