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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008</pubDate>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Lower personal injury solicitor cost equals lower premiums</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>Swansea Council claims to have saved around and pound;500,000 on its insurance premiums by clamping down on people who use personal injury solicitors in order to make fraudulent compensation claims.Fortunately, the council says that it has been able...</description>
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<title>Personal injury news - No win, no fee lawyers face wrath of Straw</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-no-win-no-fee-lawyers-may-face-changes.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vowed to act on the "scandalous" fees of some no win, no fee lawyers.He informed the Labour Conference that he is currently debating whether a cap should be introduced on a no win, no fee lawyer's fees.Straw commented...</description>
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<title>Accident claim news - 77-year-old no win, no fee wins sum</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-gas-leak-no-win-no-fee-claim-is-success.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>	  A Cornwall-based no win, no fee firm has won and pound;2,500 personal injury compensation for a 77-year-old Truro woman who suffered gas poisoning as a result of an incorrectly installed gas cooker.The solicitor from the no win, no fee firm who ha...</description>
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<title>Personal injury news - Airline makes accident compensation offer</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-accident-compensation-to-air-disaster-families.htm</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>Family of those killed when a Russian airliner crashed on Sunday have been promised accident compensation.Aeroflot, the company at the heart of Russia's worst plane crash since 2006, has said that it will pay out accident compensation of up to and po...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Whiplash compensation frustration at court</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-whiplash-compensation-anger-of-judge.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>An 18-year-old driver who has admitted to a charge of dangerous driving over a car crash he caused in October 2007 has managed to escape being forced to pay whiplash compensation to the two occupants of the car he collided with.However, the judge hea...</description>
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<title>Personal injury claim news - No win, no fee solicitors in Turkish resort case</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-no-win-no-fee-solicitor-comments-on-holiday-claims.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>A firm of Manchester-based no win, no fee solicitors is representing the holiday illness claims of a number of UK tourists who developed gastrointestinal infections while holidaying in a Turkish resort.One no win, no fee solicitor from the firm comme...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - RAF man’s personal injury claim</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-claim-reaches-mod.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>A former RAF technician is making personal injury claim against the MoD after becoming paralysed as a result of an injury sustained in morale-building exercise.The 24-year-old was participating in a game that involved diving to the bottom of an infla...</description>
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<title>Accident claim news - Post-crash pictures sent to no win, no fee solicitor</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-no-win-no-fee-solicitor-sought-over-kerb-fall.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008</pubDate>
<description>An elderly Hatfield man has contacted a firm of no win, no fee solicitors after his wife suffered injuries when her mobility scooter fell from a high kerb onto the road.Pictures of the woman's injuries, which included cuts and bruises to her legs and...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Personal injury solicitor succeeds for octogenarian</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-solicitor-wins-for-plumber-negligence.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>A personal injury solicitor has helped a WW2 widow claim compensation after a freak accident involving a falling radiator left her hospitalised with serious injuries to her legs.The 87-year-old suffered severe burns, a broken ankle and a fractured hi...</description>
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<title>Accident compensation news - Crazed cow work injury claim settled</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-work-injury-claim-a-fair-settlement.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>The work injury claim of a former dairy farmer has resulted in the payout of and pound;60,000 in personal injury compensation.The claimant sustained multiple injuries after being charged at by a cow that had only moments before been separated from it...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Work accident compensation for hospital worker</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-work-accident-compensation-for-fluid-spill-slip.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Newcastle-based healthcare assistant has received work accident compensation after she slipped on antiseptic anti-MRSA hand gel, then fell and broke her hip while working at a hospital there.Despite receiving immediate surgery on the hip, doctors w...</description>
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<title>Accident claim news - No win, no fee solicitor quashes piracy allegations</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-no-win-no-fee-solicitor-clears-woman-of-piracy.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>An American woman has successfully used the services of a no win, no fee solicitor to secure compensation, including some for psychological personal injury, and legal fees from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after they falsely a...</description>
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<title>Accident solicitor news - Misdiagnosis compensation claims reach £3 million</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-leicester-hospital-compensation-claims-bill-to-grow.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>The bill for medical negligence compensation claims for misdiagnosis of epilepsy at a Leicester hospital are reported to have now reached and pound;3 million, with more than 100 cases still pending.All of the misdiagnosis compensation claims relate t...</description>
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<title>Car crash news - Instructor makes whiplash claim</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-whiplash-claim-by-driving-examiner.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>A driving instructor from Portsmouth is making a work injury claim for whiplash compensation after being involved in an accident while helping a woman take her driving test.The work injury claim will seek to cover lost earnings and medical expenses i...</description>
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<title>Road accident news - Tragic Australia car crash claim settled</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-car-crash-claim-results-in-six-figure-payout.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008</pubDate>
<description>AUSTRALIA – A tragic car crash has resulted in a payout of more than $700,000 (Australian) personal injury compensation after the claimant suffered multiple personal injuries and lost her mother in the incident.The car crash claim payout is understoo...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Film star in car crash compensation claim hot water?</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-star-could-face-car-crash-compensation-claim.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Hollywood film star may face a car crash compensation claim after being arrested for drink driving following an accident in Los Angeles over the weekend.Shia Labeouf, star of the latest Transformers film, rolled his truck early Sunday morning, suff...</description>
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<title>Plane crash news - No win, no fee compensation claims and QF near miss</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-no-win,-no-fee-claims-may-result-from-air-incident.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>It has emerged as a serious possibility that passengers who were aboard Flight QF30, the Qantas jumbo jet that was forced to make an emergency landing in the Philippines after a hole in its fuselage caused it to become depressurised, may make no win,...</description>
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<title>Plane crash news - Personal injury lawyers in air accident claim</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-lawyers-to-assist-families.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>Personal injury lawyers acting on behalf of the families of US and UK nationals killed in a September 2007 air crash off the Thai island of Phuket are hoping to claim some and pound;125 million in compensation for their clients.Eight British citizens...</description>
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<title>No win, no fee news - Postwoman’s personal injury claim</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-claim-over-step-fall.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Yorkshire man has spoken of how he is "flabbergasted" after receiving news that he and his wife will be the subjects of a personal injury claim made by a postwoman who allegedly slipped and fell on the steps leading to his house.The married couple...</description>
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<title>Work injury news - Car wash work accident results in fractured pelvis</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-car-wash-work-accident-leads-to-fractured-pelvis.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Southend man has suffered personal injury in a car wash work accident last week. The man, in his late 30s, was sitting on a wall at the car wash he worked in when a colleague moved a car that was being washed so that it struck him, fracturing his p...</description>
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<title>Work injury news - Training company warns of forklift accident risk</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-forklift-accidents-could-be-averted-with-better-training.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>This week, one of the UK's largest forklift driver training providers has been trying to raise the profile of forklift accidents in the workplace, and the importance of training users of these pieces of heavy equipment appropriately. A company spoke...</description>
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<title>No win no fee news - Personal injury lawyer bills for receiving thanks</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-lawyer-charges-for-gratitude.htm</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>An Australian personal injury lawyer company has been in the antipodean press recently over alleged fee inflation in compensation claim bills.Unlike a no win, no fee solicitor, the firm bills its clients in six-minute units, each costing a tenth of...</description>
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<title>Motorbike accident news - Man guilty of pensioner death in motorcycle crash</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-motorcycle-crash-man-found-guilty-of-pensioner-death.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Wiltshire biker involved in a fatal motorcycle crash has been found guilty over the death of a pedestrian, despite failing to give a breath sample at the time of the accident.The accident occurred in May 2007, when the man's bike crashed into a Me...</description>
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<title>Asbestos news - Mesothelioma sufferer holds living wake after diagnosis</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-mesothelioma-sufferer-holds-wake.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008</pubDate>
<description>A mesothelioma sufferer from Falmouth held a 'living wake' this week after being told he had only twelve months left to live.The man worked as a fitter on the Falmouth docks for nearly twenty years, where he is believed to have inhaled the asbestos...</description>
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<title>Car accident news - Belfast car crash in car park leads to pile-up</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-car-crash-leads-to-pileup-in-belfast.htm</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Belfast car crash in a Tesco car park occurred on Tuesday night, in which one runaway high-end car damaged another and crushed a Toyota Celica. Press pictures of the scene show a Lexus parked on top of a Porsche Boxster and the Celica next to it. I...</description>
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<title>Asbestos compensation news - Mesothelioma death a mystery</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-mystery-mesothelioma-case-in-wiltshire.htm</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Wiltshire newspaper reported on a mystery mesothelioma case this week, after an inquest was performed on a pensioner who had died from the asbestos-related lung cancer.The woman's history did not seem to include any period of working with asbestos;...</description>
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<title>Car crash news - Runaway cement mixer causes whiplash</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-cement-mixer-crash-results-in-only-whiplash-injury.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>An Oxfordshire road traffic accident involving a runaway cement mixer has, incredibly, left the people involved with no personal injury more serious than whiplash. The people involved include an elderly couple, a pregnant woman and several netball pl...</description>
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<title>Personal injury news - Fraudulent personal injury lawyer sent down for months</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-lawyer-jailed-for-fraud.htm</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>An American sting operation has resulted in a fraudulent personal injury lawyer being sent to prison for two months and a further year of supervised release including 100 hours of community service.His sentence could have been more stringent, but th...</description>
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<title>Work accident news - Industrial accident as barbecue explodes</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-exploding-barbecue-causes-tragic-industrial-accident.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>A Scottish grinder operator has died in a tragic industrial accident this weekend when the barbecue he was making out of a metal drum exploded. The man was working in a light engineering workshop in the Grampian area. It is thought that the drum he...</description>
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<title>Accident claim news - Personal injury solicitor to ride for charity</title>
<link>http://www.accident-compensation-people-uk.co.uk/news-personal-injury-solicitor-on-a-valiant-steed.htm</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008</pubDate>
<description>We don't know whether it's bravery of foolhardiness, but one thing it certainly is, is honourable – a personal injury solicitor from a firm in West Berkshire is to jockey a horse for a charity race at Newbury Racecourse on Thursday.The personal injur...</description>
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