Periodic Payments in Catastrophic Injury Cases – A welcome development for Insurers

Legislation allowing the Irish courts to make Periodic Payment Orders (“PPOs”) has been almost eight years in the making. They were first called for in the 2010 Report of the High Court Working Group on Medical Negligence and Periodic Payments.

In this article, Niamh Loughran and Cian O’Gorman discuss this new legislation and how it will have an impact on medical negligence claims going forward.

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