Volume 1

Report / Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury
Date:
1978
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Report / Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22 The definition of injury adopted is that leading to four or more days off work, or an equivalent degree of severity for those not at work. This definition corresponds to the period after which national insurance sickness or injury benefit ordinarily becomes payable. 23 Where figures have been rounded to the last significant digit, the sum of constituent items may not be exactly equal to the total shown. Acknowledgments 24 It is difficult to acknowledge adequately all the help we have received. We express our gratitude to all those who helped us with evidence, written or oral. Special thanks are due to the British Insurance Association and Lloyd’s, who undertook a statistical survey for us, and with whom we had several discussions; to a number of Government departments; to Sir Roy Allen, our statistical consultant; to Dr J H Renwick of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for a report on ante-natal injury; to Professor J P M Tizard of the University of Oxford for a report on birth injury; to Mr M Freeman of the University of London for a survey of the literature on the pros and cons of tort; to Professor A M Linden of York University, Ontario for a survey of Canadian schemes; and to Professor R Henderson of the University of Nebraska for an analysis of no-fault schemes in the USA. We wish to thank those who arranged our overseas visits and also those who generously gave their time to discussing the common problems and the differing factors involved in the various countries. 25 We wish to express gratitude to our Secretary, Mrs Elizabeth Parsons, for her dedicated service to this Commission, her skill in organising its activities both in the United Kingdom and overseas, and the help which she has given to us all. We are also grateful to her and to the present and past members of the Secretariat for their work in connection with the consideration of written evidence and information, the compilation of statistics and costings and the production of the report. We also thank those who carried out the typing, copying and circulation of the numerous papers required by our wide-ranging enquiry.
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