March 2016 - Campbell Attorneys

March 30, 2016

Six injured in JHB train accident

JOHANNESBURG – There has been a train accident in Doornfontein, east of Johannesburg.

March 30, 2016

Afro 4000 train derails in Northern Cape, several injured

A Prasa Afro 4000 train travelling from Johannesburg to Cape Town derailed just before midnight as it passed through Kimberley, close to Modder River, in the […]

March 30, 2016

Train did not experience system failure – Prasa

Johannesburg – A Johannesburg train, from which panicked commuters jumped from, did not experience a system failure in its brake system, the Passenger Rail Agency of […]

March 30, 2016

Rail Regulator Mulls Prasa Safety Standards

THE Rail Safety Regulator, an agency better known for investigating train derailments and crashes than issuing operating permits to operators, has been thrust into the spotlight […]

March 30, 2016

Emergency Medical Care Tariff increased with effect from the 1st of April 2015

A Board Notice was published in the Government Gazette on the 22nd of May 2015 advising that the emergency medical tariff has been increased by 6.5% […]

March 30, 2016

Statutory Cap in respect of Loss of Income and Loss of Support Adjusted

With effect from the 30th of April 2015 the statutory cap which is used to calculate the cap on loss of income and loss of support […]

March 30, 2016

Bus driver sentenced to three years after fatal crash

Mbombela – A bus driver convicted on four counts of murder and 62 counts of attempted murder after the bus he was driving collided with a […]

March 30, 2016

Judge slams RAF for ‘Wasting Time’

Pretoria – A high court judge has given the Road Accident Fund a severe tongue-lashing for “defending matters which are not defensible and thus not only […]

March 30, 2016

LSSA expresses serious concern

‘LSSA expresses serious concern at reports of irregularities relating to prescribed direct claims by road accident victims.’ De Rebus, November 2015:16 [2015] DEREBUS 210 Click on […]