News Desk 2002

Thompsons Solicitors are the most experienced personal injury practice in the country with specific expertise in personal injury claims. Thompsons provides a news and information service to journalists interested in personal injury and employment law issues. This includes press releases on many of the firm's successful cases, and comment on legal matters which affect trade unions and their members, and on our responses to government policy consultation documents.

A selection of press releases are below. To contact Thompsons' press office, please call 0207 290 0000.

To view press releases from 1st May 2011 please visit our personal injury news page.

Links to press releases for other periods can be found on the main News Desk page.
28th November 2002

Fixed costs - stats debunk the insurers' myths

The extensive materials that Thompsons, the UK's biggest personal injury law firm, has handed over to the researchers appointed by the Civil Justice Council to look into fixed costs debunk the myth that costs are rising and show that they have in fact been falling year on year.

2nd October 2002

Flawed methods threaten value of government's legal costs research

Thompsons Solicitors, the most experienced personal injury firm in the UK, says research commissioned by the Civil Justice Council (CJC) into costs is fundamentally flawed.

21st August 2002

Whinging insurance industry puts profit before people

The largest firm of solicitors acting for injury victims called on the insurance industry to stop whinging and instead join with trade unions and their lawyers in campaigning for improved health and safety at work.

16th May 2002

Lords restore justice to thousands of asbestos victims and widows

The UK's largest law firm acting for asbestos victims welcomed today's decision by the Law Lords to overturn a devastating ruling by the Court of Appeal which robbed thousands of dying men and widows of compensation.

1st May 2002

Thompsons announces new equity partners

Thompsons, the UK's biggest personal injury and trade union law firm, has announced the appointment of five new equity partners.

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