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Disabled compensation test cases fail

The Court of Appeal has thrown out three test cases involving two road accident victims and a child who suffered brain damage at birth. The cases involve an argument that many disabled people are being under-compensated because payouts calculated to meet the costs of future care and loss of earnings are wrongly linked to the Retail Price Index.

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