Personal Injury Claims - Blog Entries

Monday, March 12th, 2012

John was interviewed for the PIP Time Special on the PIP Breast Implant Recall.  You can watch the entire piece from the programme below.

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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

By passing the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 the Government has, in its wisdom, introduced what has been labelled “good Samaritan” legislation.  “Why did we need that, then?”, I hear you ask. Remember the hundreds of angry placard-wielding protestors outside Leinster House howling for legal reform?  Surely you’ll recall Joe Duffy’s [...]

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Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Anyone who keeps an eye on topical food safety issues will be aware that the past few weeks have seen the blogosphere ablaze with reports of a spate of foodborne illness of horrific proportions playing itself out in the US.  The Jensen Farms Cantaloupe Listeria outbreak has straddled the United States from [...]

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Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Anyone who has ever had anything to do with the legal profession will be aware that nothing floats our boat more than the use of arcane terminology. Words from dead languages make us particularly excited. And, if we can manage to shoehorn a completely unnecessary Latin maxim into our written advices, we’re [...]

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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

“No win, no fee” (sometimes described as “no foal, no fee”) is the way most accident claims or medical negligence claims in Ireland are taken. The solicitors and the barristers are only paid if the case is successful. The flip side of this is that they will only take the case if [...]

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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

If you’ve ever wanted concrete evidence of what a dangerous cocktail stupidity and deviousness produces you should have a look at the facts in McKenna v. Dormer. Leo McKenna was a forty-three-year-old plumber who injured his knee after he fell from a ladder on a building site in September of 2001.  At [...]

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Monday, March 14th, 2011

First it was the text message. Apparently they were originally designed with the decidedly utilitarian intention of providing a portable paging system for craftsmen using their cars as a mobile office. It was never envisaged that they would be used by the general public, much less that they would become a means [...]

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Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Anyone who has seen Hans Moleman Productions’ beautifully crafted Man Getting Hit By Football will appreciate the primeval hilarity of a guy taking a smack to the groin.  That’s why the facts giving rise to a claim for damages in the case of Lynch v. Binnacle Limited appear, at first glance at [...]

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Saturday, March 5th, 2011

In order to secure compensation for personal injuries or wrongful death you’ve got to show that the person against whom you are claiming was negligent and that their negligence gave rise to the harm occasioned to you. Negligence occurs where it is established that a person owed a duty of care to [...]

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Sunday, February 20th, 2011

You’ve got to hand it to Aesop.  Anyone who could so perfectly encapsulate human nature in such simple stories which are as true today as when they were first written over two-and-a-half millennia ago was truly a brilliant mind. His fable about the boy who cried wolf was the first thing that [...]

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