Personal Injury weekly highlights—21 March 2019

Published on: 21 March 2019

Published by: LexisPSL

Personal Injury weekly highlights—21 March 2019
In this issue:
Key PI developments
Lord Chancellor to review personal injury discount rate
Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Clinical negligence
Application for anonymity dismissed
Commission calls for NHS to adopt ‘open learning culture’
Coroner’s inquests
Causative effect of the ambulance’s delay should have been left to the jury

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Case management
Supreme Court—setting aside judgments for fraud and reasonable diligence
Compensatory and enhanced (Part 36) interest considered
Disclosure of unredacted documents—risk of foreign prosecution
Damages
£15m settlement from NHS trust for failure to diagnose meningitis
Apportionment of liability
Additional PI updates this week
106th practice direction update—online civil money claims
Additional news—daily and weekly news alerts
New and updated content
New Practice Notes
Dates for your diary
Latest Q&As
Useful information

Article summary

This week’s edition of Personal Injury highlights includes the announcement that the Lord Chancellor started a review of the discount rate on 19 March 2019 and will make a decision about the rate on or before 5 August 2019. We also have a Brexit SI which has been made so that once the UK leaves the EU the MIB will no longer act as a compensation body for UK residents injured in road traffic accidents in the EU. We have our usual round-up of key cases and news as well as webinar dates for your diaries, recent Q&As and New Law Journal articles of interest. We also have details about a new Practice Note which has been published on personal injury claims involving a party that has been made bankrupt or insolvent and a new clinical negligence Practice Note on anaesthetic claims. Sign in or take a trial to read the full analysis.