It has been said the best form of disinfectant is sunlight.
It is good news that the BBC Money Box programme has recently run a piece on insurers’ practice of third party capture.
This involves the insurer of the guilty party making speedy (unrequested) contact with the injured victim of the accident, and trying to settle their […]

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A recent house of Lords judgment confirmed an old legal maxim. 
Mr Gray was a passenger in the Ladbrook Road Train Crash in October 1999. Although not badly hurt physically he subsequently developed severe post traumatic stress disorder and depression.
In August 2001 he was involved in an altercation and, as a result of his psychological condition, he stabbed the other […]

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The Government has announced week that osteoarthritis of the knee in coal miners is to be added to the Industrial Injuries Disability Benefit Scheme. This means that any miner who worked underground for more than ten years prior to 1986 and has developed osteoarthritis will be entitled to claim the benefit. It will come into effect on 13 […]

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