Meaningful Engagement Is Needed From the Oireachtas on Insurance Reform
ISME calls on the members of the
Reform of our personal injuries system is glacially slow, and suggests that legislators are afraid of vested interests. It is time to put the interests of citizens and small businesses before those of lawyers and insurance companies.
ISME calls on the Oireachtas to:
* Apply international benchmarks to general damages awards, which are vastly higher in
* Put the Book of Quantum on a legislative basis, to minimise judicial discretion in setting general damages, in accordance with precedent already set by the Supreme Court, and the Civil Liability Act 1961.
* Require the
* Introduce, without delay, a statutory offence of perjury in
* Amend our laws and rules of court to require the automatic criminal investigation of false or misleading claims, and to require that false or misleading claimants must automatically bear the costs of their dishonest actions incurred by defendants.
* Reform the laws of defamation in
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