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Fri 03 Mar 2007Payout problemsThe Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) is not proving the low-cost, high-speed system for processing claims that was promised, in the experience of consumers who contacted The Irish Timesabout their cases.One mother described how her daughter tripped on a broken pavement one night almost three years ago. As she fell, a bottle she was carrying broke and severed three of the tendons in her wrist.