What is the Injuries Resolution Board?
The Injuries Resolution Board is an independent State Body that helps to resolve personal injury claims.
What is it?
The Injuries Resolution Board, formerly the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB), is an independent State Body which aims to resolve personal injury claims. The Injuries Resolution Board provides an assessment of compensation service and a mediation service that supports the fair, prompt, and transparent resolution of personal injury claims without the need for unnecessary and costly litigation.
The Injuries Resolution Board is self-funded and contributes to the wider reform of the insurance sector and personal injuries resolution. Annually it saves tens of millions of euros which would otherwise be spent on processing claims, leading to higher costs for insurance policyholders. You can find more information through their website here: www.injuries.ie.
Who can use it?
The Injuries Resolution Board provides an impartial claims resolution services for Claimant’s (those making a claim for compensation) and Respondents (those a claim is made against) The Injuries Resolution Board independently resolves personal injury claims for compensation relating to motor liability, employer liability (workplace accidents), public liability, and Garda compensation.
Application Stage – Claimant
If you are making a claim to the Injuries Resolution Board, you must complete an application. For an application to be complete it must contain the following:
A completed Application Form (either online through our website or via the post), which you can find on our website at www.injuries.ie
A completed Medical Report from the doctor who treated you for the injuries incurred in the accident/incident.
Application fee of €45 for an online application or €90 for an application through the post or via email. You can pay this fee online or send a cheque.
The Respondent
Once a completed application is received, the Injuries Resolution Board proceed to issue formal notification of the claim to the Respondent and/or their insurance company. The Respondent has 90 days to inform the Injuries Resolution Board if it consents to the claim being dealt with by them. This means that the Respondent (the person the claims is made against) is happy for the Injuries Resolution Board to assess the value of the claim using medical and other evidence, and or that you are happy for the Injuries Resolution Board to try and mediate to bring the claim to a successful resolution for both parties.
If the Respondent does not consent, the Injuries Resolution Board will issue the Claimant with an authorisation enabling them to pursue the claim through litigation, in other words, bring the person or business to Court.
If the Respondent consents to the Injuries Resolution Board dealing with the claim (through opting for mediation, assessment or both), then they are required to pay a fee of €1,050 for this service. If a reply is not made within 90 days, it is assumed that the Respondent accepts the claim being assessed by the Injuries Resolution Board.
Why use the Injuries Resolution Board?
Quick – significantly less time to resolve a claim than through litigation or court. Resolution in mediation can be less than 4 months, while in assessment it can be less than 9 months.
Doesn’t affect legal rights if no agreement is reached or a claim is not accepted.
Independent and impartial.
Non-adversarial - The parties do not have to speak directly to each other thereby reducing stress.
Agreements are legally binding.
Low-cost model – far less cost than going to litigation/court.
Mediated can deal with a broad range of issues.
You can find more information, submit a claim or get in touch with the Injuries Resolution Board through their website www.injuries.ie.
The Injuries Resolution Board, formally PIAB, is the independent state body that resolves personal injury claims in Ireland.
PIAB rebranded as the Injuries Resolution Board in December 2023.