Appeal court affirms Hillsborough secondary victim claim ruling

The Court of Appeal has revisited a 1992 Hillsborough ruling concerning secondary victims of psychiatric injury and re-affirmed that existing limitations should be applied unless Parliament intervenes, in a move that spells good news for insurers.

In the case of in Taylor v Novo, which concluded this week, lawyers for the claimant, Crystal Taylor, argued she had sustained psychiatric injury from witnessing her mother's sudden death three weeks