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The High Court has allowed an amendment to a personal injuries summons which changed the method of accident from slipping on a wet floor to slipping on steps from a truck. The plaintiff was an employee of the defendant who claimed that he slipped during the course of his work in October 2014.

A number of key reforms to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) will come into effect from next week, the government has announced. Dara Calleary, minister of state for trade promotion and digital transformation at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, has signed a commencemen

The High Court has awarded €63,000 to a bus driver who was injured in an assault by an unidentified assailant during the course of his employment. The driver brought personal injuries proceedings against Bus Éireann claiming that the bus company failed to provide him with a safe place of

People injured by e-bikes and e-scooters should be entitled to compensation from the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (MIBI), a prominent personal injury solicitor has said. Liam Moloney, managing partner of Kildare firm Moloney & Co Solicitors and vice-president of the Pan European Organisatio

The High Court has determined that a defendant was entitled to discovery of a plaintiff’s post-accident medical records in a personal injuries case. It was held that post-accident records were clearly relevant to the proceedings and there was no reason why they should not be discovered. Delive

As another year draws to a close, lawyers across Ireland will be settling down for the Christmas break. December is always a busy period as both clients and the courts are keen to finalise matters before every sits down to turkey, selection boxes and (for those inclined) festive tipples for three we

Northern Ireland's High Court has determined that a personal injury settlement which a man received two years before his bankruptcy did not form part of the bankruptcy estate. The court found that the sum satisfied a statutory exception, and should be excluded because it represented provisions neces

The High Court has dismissed two claims for personal injuries involving a minor accident on the basis that the plaintiffs gave "false and inconsistent" evidence in the case. A central feature of the case related to one of the plaintiffs being referred to medical consultants by her solicitor, which t

The High Court has awarded €89,000 to a man who received a tear to his rotator cuff and psychiatric damage in a road traffic accident. In so ruling, the court applied the principles contained in the Personal Injuries Guidelines for compensation for multiple injuries. Delivering judgment in the

The High Court has delivered two further decisions on the Recoverable Benefits and Assistance (RBA) Scheme, holding that it is permissible for practitioners to seek consent orders apportioning liability between the parties to personal injuries actions. In so ruling, the judges rejected the reasoning

Historic files consisting of claims for damages by individuals for injuries or death during the War of Independence and the Civil War are set to be released to the public next spring. The collection, which has been transferred from the Department of Finance to the National Archives, contains first-h

The High Court has allowed an appeal against an order striking out a plaintiff’s proceedings on the basis that the proceedings did not offend the rule in Henderson v. Henderson (1843) 3 Hare 100. The plaintiff had issued a previous set of proceedings arising from the same incident and the Circ

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal to dismiss a personal injuries action in which the plaintiff slipped on ice outside his own apartment. The plaintiff sued the management company for damages, claiming that it had been negligent by not gritting the landing, not maintaining nosing strips on th

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against the dismissal of two personal injuries claims for women who claimed to be injured while riding a swing in a playground with toddlers. A central feature of the case was a dispute between experts as to the minimum height clearance of the swing from the

Motor insurance premiums decreased by an average of two per cent in the first year of the new personal injury guidelines, according to new figures from the Central Bank of Ireland. The fourth annual private motor insurance report of the National Claims Information Database (NCID) covers the period f