The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and the Association of British Insurers have agreed a new approach to the handling of personal injury...
APIL and FOIL have agreed a set of standard practices to help injured claimants and defendants during the disruption of the Covid-19 crisis. The...
APIL president Gordon Dalyell said: “An inflationary increase to statutory bereavement damages in England and Wales is not good enough. The...
A new system for claiming compensation for whiplash injuries confirms the Government’s contempt for injured motorists, lawyers warn. The...
In reaction to a written ministerial statement, Gordon Dalyell, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) specifically...
On trains we see multiple posters plastered up and down the carriages reading “Delayed train? Your compensation isn’t far away”. A...
Insurance companies regularly make the threat of premium increases when the law appears to favour injured people. This usually relates to our car...
The Times has reported recently that, according to research by IRN, injured people do not support reducing the involvement of lawyers in the PI...
We all have the right to live our lives without fear of needless injury, whether that is at work, at school, in hospital, or on the road. In this...
Survivors of historical child sexual abuse face an unfair, often unbeatable, legal hurdle to claim compensation for their suffering, lawyers have...
When this year moves into 2020, it will mark an entire decade of consistency in the level of deaths on Britain’s roads. Since 2010, around...
According to articles in The Telegraph and The Sun last week tinnitus is the ‘new fake whiplash’ and a new surge of fraudulent claims is...
The notion that severely injured people in England and Wales will flock to make their compensation claims in Scotland under the more favourable...
According to a recent report from research agency Consumer Intelligence, consumer trust in insurance companies is falling. Only 68 per cent of people...
Injured armed forces personnel and veterans face being blocked from the courts in a perverse move by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) say lawyers. ...
APIL president, Gordon Dalyell, said in reaction to the Government Actuary's Department's decision to leave the discount rate at -0.75...
APIL president Gordon Dalyell writes about both sides working together to get injured people back on track. Featured in a special...
We all love the idea of the NHS. Every man, woman and child was outraged at the very idea that Trump could strike a trade deal to include the NHS....
Putting up fees for people who need to use civil and family courts in Northern Ireland will simply pump more money into a broken system according to...
APIL president Gordon Dalyell said: “At a time when people are looking for answers on how the new small claims system will work,...
Lawyers are urging drivers to share their top tips for safe driving this Injury Prevention Day (21 August). APIL, a not-for profit...
I’m now into my second month as APIL’s chief executive and what a start to the role it has been! Long before I arrived, APIL set about...
The insurance industry is set to make savings of around £300 million from changes to the way personal injury compensation is calculated,...
Sir, There is a chasm between the amount of compensation catastrophically injured people can receive in Northern Ireland compared to...
APIL has hailed calls from a parliamentary committee for an overhaul of the law on compensation for bereaved relatives as a “long-overdue...
APIL president Gordon Dalyell said: “We welcome the Lord Chancellor’s decision to set the discount rate at minus 0.25 per...
APIL president Gordon Dalyell said: “Every penny spent on clinical negligence claims could and should be avoided, because those injuries and...
Our latest publication is about leaving behind the hyperbole and hype about insurance premiums and legal costs and changing the narrative.
Plans to extend fixed recoverable costs to civil cases valued between £25,000 and £100,000 will tilt the balance of power even further in...
A Brighton solicitor has been elected to take on a top legal role for an organisation which campaigns for justice for injured...
Medical reports for low-value road traffic claims should be free to all injured people regardless of whether liability is admitted, APIL has stated....
Read or listing to Gordon Dalyell's inaugural speech at the AGM and annual conference in Birmingham.
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