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Medical experts in whiplash cases must be accredited by 1 January 2016
Friday, 19 December 2014Medical experts wanting to provide initial reports in whiplash cases must be accredited by MedCo from 1 January 2016, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, Law Society, medical reports, Ministry of Justice, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Firms prepare judicial review challenge to government plans for whiplash medical reports
Friday, 5 December 2014A group of seven personal injury firms, including Express Solicitors and Quindell Legal Services and joined by the QualitySolicitors network, is preparing a judicial review to challenge the government’s overhaul of medical reporting in whiplash cases, it has emerged.
Tags: judicial review, medical reports, QualitySolicitors, Quindell, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Grayling gets it wrong on whiplash
Wednesday, 3 December 2014Justice secretary Chris Grayling blundered yesterday afternoon when he announced that medical experts had only three months, from January 2015 to 1 April 2015, to become accredited under the government’s new MedCo scheme.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, Chris Grayling, MedCo, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Four in ten experts do not think whiplash accreditation scheme will raise standards, survey finds
Monday, 24 November 2014Almost four in ten expert witnesses do not believe that government plans to introduce compulsory accreditation for expert witnesses in whiplash cases will raise standards, a survey has found.
Tags: accreditation scheme, Expert witnesses, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News
Random allocation of medical experts is “barking mad”, leading supplier says
Tuesday, 11 November 2014The head of one of the biggest suppliers of medical reports has described government plans to introduce random allocation of experts in whiplash cases as “barking mad”.
Tags: MASS, medical reports, Ministry of Justice, 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
ABI portal to control medical evidence in whiplash cases
Thursday, 4 September 2014A portal created by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and known as ‘MedCo’ will be sole point of access for lawyers seeking medical reports on whiplash cases, under Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
MPs call for caution on medical panels for whiplash cases
Friday, 4 July 2014MPs on the transport select committee have called for caution in the introduction of independent medical panels for whiplash cases, while demanding a complete ban on pre-medical offers by insurance companies.
Tags: Association of British Insurers, medical reports, MoJ, whiplash
Posted in 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
ABI calls for greater cut in fees for whiplash medical reports “to remove referral element”
Monday, 2 June 2014The government’s proposed 10% cut in fixed fees for doctors’ medical reports on whiplash cases does not go far enough, the Association of British Insurers has said, while claimant groups says independence of the agency commissioning them is a red herring.
Tags: ABI, Association of British Insurers, fees, medical reports, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News, Uncategorized