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MedCo regime goes live
Tuesday, 7 April 2015All medical reports for whiplash claims must now be brought under the MedCo system after it formally went live yesterday. Claimants will be given the choice of one “high-volume national” medical reporting organisation and six smaller ones, or seven medical experts.
Tags: MedCo, medical experts, medical reporting organisation, MRO, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
CJC calls for tighter controls on links between claimant solicitors and experts in whiplash cases
Wednesday, 8 October 2014The Civil Justice Council has called for controls on links between claimant solicitors and medical reporting organisations and experts to be extended beyond situations where there is a financial connection.
Tags: medical reporting organisation, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in Experts, MoJ claims process, News
Doctors Chambers seeks external investor
Friday, 6 June 2014Doctors Chambers, which describes itself as the “UK’s largest independently owned providers of independent medical evidence”, is looking for an external investor to fund overseas expansion.
Tags: external investor, medical reporting organisation, medical reports
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Solicitors seek support for challenge to MoJ plan to ban them from owning medical agencies
Tuesday, 13 May 2014Two Manchester personal injury firms are seeking support for a legal challenge to the Ministry of Justice’s proposal that will stop solicitors from owning the medical agencies through which they commission reports in whiplash cases.
Tags: medical evidence, medical reporting organisation, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News
Government lays out cuts to medical report fees and plan to end law firms owning agencies
Wednesday, 7 May 2014A 10% cut to fixed fees for medical reports and an end to law firms owning the agencies that commission them have been put out for consultation in the latest stage of the government’s plans to crack down on whiplash claims.
Tags: medical evidence, medical report, medical reporting organisation, whiplash
Posted in Costs, Experts, MoJ claims process, News
Claimant lawyers accused of “milking the medical agency cash cow”
Monday, 11 February 2013Claimant solicitors are “milking the medical agency cash cow” by setting up their own medical reporting organisations (MROs) and charging more than the industry agreed levels, a leading defendant practitioner has claimed.
Tags: medical reporting organisation, MRO
Posted in Costs, Experts, General, News
Leading MROs launch new industry accreditation to head off whiplash concerns
Tuesday, 11 December 2012Two of UK’s leading medico-legal reporting agencies have launched a quality mark for medical experts in a bid to head off criticisms of the current regime. Premex Group and Premier Medical Group have endorsed the newly created Certificate in Medical Reporting.
Tags: medical evidence, medical reporting organisation, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News
Ex-RJW partner bids to “reinvent” medical reports process by separating procurement from diagnosis
Wednesday, 7 November 2012A former Russell Jones & Walker partner is bidding to “reinvent” the medico-legal process in low-value personal injury claims with a new service that will “redress the imbalance which predisposes evidence to favour the instructing party”.
Tags: expert evidence, medical report, medical reporting organisation, MRO, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News