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Published on: 09 May 2024

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Cases and decisions

UKSC confirms approach to damages in mixed injury cases following whiplash reforms (Hassam v Rabot)

In Hassam v Rabot, the Supreme Court examined how the ‘whiplash reforms’—which set a statutory tariff for PSLA awards for whiplash—operate in ‘mixed injury’ claims where whiplash and non‑whiplash injuries arise from the same accident. The Court confirmed a broadly two‑step method for valuing PSLA. First, the judge should total the tariff figure for the whiplash element with the common law assessment for PSLA attributable to the non‑whiplash injury. Second, the court must then consider a deduction to prevent compensating twice for the same PSLA already reflected in both the tariff and the common law sum...

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