Future loss in practice : periodical payments and lump sums / Nicholas Bevan, Sheralee Ellis, Theodore Huckle.

London : LexisNexis UK, 2007.

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Personal injuries -- Great Britain.

Structured settlements -- Great Britain.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Introduction

The evolution of periodical payments

Future loss - an overview

Lump sum awards

Periodical payments

Indexation

Variable orders and agreements

Protecting the payments

Drafting and pleading points

Alternative investment vehicles

Investing lump sum damages awards

Funding periodical payments orders

State benefits, personal injury trusts and taxation issues

Local authority provision

Clinical negligence and catastrophic injury claims

The role of the expert

Procedural matters and periodical payments in practice

A tactical appraisal of periodical payments.

This book examines the new periodic payments regime, one of the most important recent reforms to personal injury practice, which gives courts the power to impose periodical payments orders for future losses along with lump sum compensatory awards.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes index.

9781405714921

xxxviii, 549 p. : tables ; 25 cm