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16 November 2022
Issue: 8003 / Categories: Legal News , Personal injury , Damages , Compensation
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Test cases listed for whiplash damages

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Personal injury organisations APIL and MASS have been given permission by the Court of Appeal to intervene in two test cases to help establish levels of compensation to be awarded for ‘mixed’ whiplash injuries. 

New compensation tariffs were introduced for whiplash cases last year, but legislation failed to address the way damages should be calculated where whiplash injuries are combined with non-tariff injuries. APIL secretary Brett Dixon said it had been ‘extremely difficult’ to find suitable test cases.

The cases have been leapfrogged from Birkenhead County Court and will be heard on either 30 November or 1 December.

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