Personal injury solicitors news
18/07/2007
Belated posthumous payout

An eminent personal injury solicitor has achieved justice for the widower of a woman who was tragically killed by a suicidal driver in a car accident on the A1.

The suicidal driver, 19, was heading down the wrong carriageway at high speed with the intent of killing himself following the break-up of a relationship. He is now serving a ten-year sentence for manslaughter.

The widower was forced to employ the personal injury solicitor after his late wife's insurance company failed to pay out any compensation, bewilderingly claiming they could not do so as their investigations had revealed that the deceased woman may have been a smoker.

Speaking in the wake of securing his client £100,000 in compensation, the man's personal injury solicitor said, "Clearly in this case, whether [she] had been a smoker in the past or not was wholly irrelevant to the cause of her death, but insurance companies will challenge claims on the basis that they have been deprived of information that may have made a difference to the price of the policy."