RoSPA the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has entered the current debate about whether children should cycle to school or not, due to fears over accidents and injuries. Some experts on safety are starting to wonder whether societal anxiety over child cycling injuries is now doing more harm than good. Some feel that an entire generation of children look set to miss out on cycling to school because of worries about Road Traffic Accidents (RTA). Many people are overreacting about cycling safety says the Royal Society for the Prevention of ...
A national campaign group of personal injury lawyers is celebrating 20 years working for the rights of the injured, and is now looking forward to even more hard work, campaigning for the rights of injured people throughout the UK who have suffered accidents through no fault of their own. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers was set up on a mission to defend people’s rights for adequate compensation when they become victims of personal injury whether it is injury at work, road traffic injuries, or other forms of ...
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) is warning consumers about what has become known as ‘third party capture’, a practice which involves an insurance company settling a claim directly with a personal injury victim of a policyholder, without the victim receiving independent legal advice. The war of words from the APIL comes in reaction to what it sees as the latest attempt by the insurance industry to encourage the practice, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) having just launched a voluntary code of practice for insurers which it describes as ‘third-party ...
Frightening new statistics released from the World Health Organisation (WHO) have identified that half of all fatal Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) involve pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists. Half of the 1.27 million people who die in Road Traffic Accidents annually are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists, according to the first major WHO study of global Road Traffic Accident injury numbers. The world study of RTA injuries and accidents is the first global assessment focusing on road safety and RTA statistics comparing wealthy and poorer countries and different types of road users; and finds ...
BP has promised a £13.5 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill disaster, to cover personal injury, clean up expenses for Gulf Coast agencies and other related claims but pressure is still mounting on the huge multinational oil company to do more to face up to its responsibilities along the Gulf Coast. The BP compensation fund announcement follows a meeting with US President Barack Obama, the BP Board quickly revealing its enormous compensation package ...
