Under Polish law, compensation for pecuniary damage includes both the losses suffered by the injured party (damnum emergens), the benefits that s/he could have achieved if the damage had not been caused (lucrum cessans), as well as future expenses which need to be incurred due to the victim’s health. In more basic terms, when someone […]
Polish civil substantive law
Accommodation claims in personal injury cases are still not very common in Poland. Moreover, when they are pursued, they usually boil down to adaptation of a home or flat, rather than purchase of a new real property. Is there a good reason for that, though? First things first, under Polish law there is the principle […]
Serving proceedings on a Defendant in another EU Member State may be a rather complicated matter, despite the commendable legislative efforts aimed at making this as seamless as possible. The most current efforts in question boil down mostly to the Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on […]
In the face of widespread criticism of the activities of the District Committees Adjudicating on Medical Events (Wojewódzkie Komisje ds. Orzekania o Zdarzeniach Medycznych) as well as considering new developments to investigate alternatives to judicial proceedings, it is worth to consider reasons why a formula of compensating personal injury, intentionally modelled on (among others) the […]
Soon new regulations, which aim to solve financial problems of people who ran out of guarantee sums, will come into force in Poland. Thanks to the new act, victims of road traffic accidents from years ago will be able to receive additional assistance. How did the guarantee sums in civil liability insurance coverage of motor […]
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