Seanad debates
Tuesday, 25 November 2003
Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
It is important that people understand this. They will look at the levels of claim awarded for that kind of accident in the Irish courts in recent times and on that basis will say that a fair compensation for such an injury is X thousand euro. The next part then becomes important. Both the claimant and the insurance company, by which I mean the respondent, will say that the Personal Injuries Assessment Board assessment is that the person should get X thousand euro in compensation. If either of those two reject the assessment, the PIAB is out of it. If they do not accept the assessment within a certain period, the PIAB will issue a letter to the person making the claim to say the person or the insurance company would not accept it and the insurance company is raising issues of law, that it, the PIAB, is out of the case and one can take one's case to court, as happens in the current situation.
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