Medical Reports and the Small Claims Limit Increase – A prejudice for vulnerable road users? (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 42 seconds) By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager Seeking to reduce the number of fraudulent negligence claims is understandable, but funding medical reports for vulnerable genuine victims of negligence can be a big issue. What […]

The Court of Appeal in West v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Demouilpied v Stockport NHS Foundation Trust yesterday handed down a defining judgement on the application of the new reasonableness and proportionality rules. This follows the 2015 decision in Nokes –v- Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust [2015] EWHC B6 (Costs) where Master Leonard […]

In switching a clinical negligence case from legal aid to CFA, the costs judgment in EPX v Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust [2019] was an unhelpful decision for ATE insurance premium recovery. It is another win for the paying party – as the claimant lost the appeal against the Master’s initial ruling. The High […]

Having Trouble With an ATE Insurance Premium Recovery in Cases Involving Minors? In a recent judgment A High Court judge has said there is no general rule preventing costs being awarded against children. the ruling ought to strengthen the need for ATE insurance in minor cases is still very much needed and for ATE insurance […]

By Matthew Best, Underwriting Manager Our Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Team have been involved in a number of leading claims of this type working with leading serious injury litigators. I attended this event and found the conference to be very useful, both in terms of content and relationship building and let’s not forget the […]

By Matthew Best, Underwriting Manager In this article Matthew takes a look at the latest position in relation to this hot topic. The current defendant stance is that interest incurred on loans taken out to pay for disbursements should not be recoverable inter-partes. What case law is currently out there? The Court of Appeal in […]