Co. Wexford saw €4.5 Million paid out in injury claims
It has been revealed by the Injuries Board that Co. Wexford paid out €45 million in compensation for personal injury claims. In its 2008 report, the Board exposed that €217 million was awarded to 8.845 claimants nationally.
In Co. Wexford there were 170 claimants last year, who received a total of €4,570.179. These statistics put the county 14th of the 26 counties for the number of claimants, just behind Waterford where 174 people were awarded €4.9 million.
Top of the personal injury claims pile was Dublin, which witnessed a total value of just under €57.5 million compensation being awarded to 2,480 people.
Since 2004, personal injury claims in Ireland (excluding medical negligence) must be processed through the Injuries Board rather than through the courts. Awards this way are processed four times faster and at a 70% less delivery cost than the courts.
The significant trend from the profile of awards made in 2008 is that the volume of high value claims (typically associated with difficult or severe personal injuries) is increasing.
Patricia Byron, Chief Executive of InjuriesBoard.ie said: “Evidence available to the Board suggests that as confidence in our non-adversarial model grows, a greater number of the more serious or complex injuries are assessed by us.”
Updated on 3/19/2009