Sentences with phrase «number of negligence claims»

Solicitors are now faced with a levy of $ 200 per solicitor per year for at least 10 years in order to avoid a doomsday scenario whereby a large number of negligence claims would not be covered by insurance.

With recent figures demonstrating that the number of negligence claims against professional legal advisers appears to have trebled in the past year, the notion that the tide of professional negligence claims resulting from the height of the property market bubble in 2006/2007 may be coming to an end may be misplaced.

Not exact matches

For the last five years she has defended a local large hospital in a number of malpractice suits stemming from a variety of claims of medical negligence.

There are a number of things that can be used to support a claim of negligence on the part of another road user:

She has acted for clients in contractual disputes and negligence claims in a variety of sectors and has acted on a number of professional negligence disputes including a significant claim against a global accountancy practice.

In recent years, the number of negligence and breach of contract claims against these professionals has risen dramatically.

There would appear to be a number of arguable points in the Ernst claim — regulatory negligence under the common law being one of them.

Only a very small number of personal injury or medical negligence claims proceed to trial.

As the range of cases dealt with by A&E departments is so broad, at Jackson Lees, we have dealt with a number of different claims where Clinical Negligence has been alleged.

He has appeared in a number of the leading reported cases in the field of reinsurance including — Suncorp v Milano (pool reinsurance); Group Josi v Walbrook (non-disclosure of agent's fraud on assured) Baker & Black Sea and Baltic (recoverability of defence costs as implied term in proportional reinsurance), Aneco v Johnson & Higgins (reinsurance brokers» negligence and measure of loss), King v Brandywine (Exxon Valdez reinsurance claims).

The judgment will do nothing to quell the worry amongst professional indemnity insurers (and some solicitors) that there is likely to be an increase in the number of professional negligence claims against solicitors arising from the way in which historic personal injury cases have been conducted.

Atherton Godfrey Solicitors has a highly rated clinical negligence practice based in Doncaster, which handles claims involving birth injury, misdiagnosis, oncology, GP care and fatality, and is one of a small number of local firms with the ability to handle birth injury cases under contract with the Legal Aid Agency.

In his decision, the Small Claims Court Judge described a number of acts or omissions that could amount to insubordination, recklessness and / or gross negligence: issuing incorrect status certificates, delays in preparing banking documents for signature, late payments, failure to provide reports to the Board.

I have successfully proven negligence in a number of weight - loss surgery claims.

We have handled substantial numbers of mediations of professional negligence claims, for both claimants and defendants; these include several recent claims against solicitors and accountants, most of them complex multi party actions.

Nicola Edwards specialises in social services negligence claims and is impressive in «her ability to manage and absorb the salient content of large numbers of records and to identify the important issues».

Jennifer also works for a number of property developers providing advice in relation to their freehold land and disputes involving option agreements, boundary disputes, property related professional negligence, adverse possession claims and possession proceedings.

At TV Edwards, our expert personal injury solicitors have helped a vast number of clients claim for a range of injuries or accidents that occurred as a result of another party's negligence.

Tim Bull, partner at RPC, says: «As economic pressures increase, so generally does the number of professional negligence claims, as those nursing losses caused by the downturn try to lay the blame at the door of their professional advisers.

California attorneys, Spillane Weingarten LLP, filed a statement of claim Friday against the Tonys, CBS Entertainment, and a number of related producers and promoters for negligence, negligent interference with prospective economic advantage, civil battery, and negligent misprepresentation.

The number of new clinical negligence claims against the NHS fell 2.5 % to 10,686 in the year 2016 — 17, new figures have revealed.

From negligence claims to cyber crimes, your company can face a number of unexpected situations that warrant proper insurance protection.