What is piab (PIAB) Ireland ? The Personal Injuries Assessment Board, abbreviated as PIAB, is an independent state body in Ireland tasked with assessing personal injury* claims. This legislation was enacted in 2003 and it has since undergone several revisions and updates. The act enables the making of assessments ie quantum of damages by the …
Duty of Care Firstly, when assessing a case, it is necessary to assess if a legal duty of care was owed between the parties. In a nervous shock road traffic accident claim*, a loved one of the injured party may have been a witness to the accident and suffered a recognisable psychological injury as a …
If you are reading this, you may have been personally injured* in an accident and are now questioning what your legal options are. If you have been injured as a result of the actions of someone else, you will have suffered what is termed a Tort, which is a civil wrong, which means you may …
A new law came into being in November 2019 which states that a driver cannot overtake a cyclist that would put them in danger. This stems from the Road Traffic Regulations 2019 which states : “(1) (a) A driver shall not overtake or attempt to overtake if to do so would endanger or cause inconvenience …
If one is a driver or a passenger in a vehicle which is stopped at a pedestrian crossing, for example, and a vehicle from behind drives into to the back of the first stopped vehicle, this is a common rear-end collision road traffic accident. What can happen is the second vehicle driver was using a …
What is a Work Accident Claim* Time Limit There is a limit regarding how long an injured person has to initiate a legal action. This limit is pursuant to the statute of limitations act and if surpassed, it can cause your claim to be whats termed as statute barred from court. One has two years …
