The government will today unveil its long-awaited consultation on increasing the small claims limit for personal injury cases from £1,000 to £5,000, a move that would decimate the workload of many law firms.
The government will today unveil its long-awaited consultation on increasing the small claims limit for personal injury cases from £1,000 to £5,000, a move that would decimate the workload of many law firms.
Of course what is actually being consulted on is:-
Whether whiplash Rtas limit to be increased to £5000;
All Rtas limit to be increased to £5000;
No change
Therefore no change to other pi work.
As well as the independent medical expert.
My guess is that whiplash only will be increase together wtith a revised fcrs matrix once the consultation closes.
“Therefore no change to other pi work”
shame the other PI work is a minority of the market
A pedant writes: decimate means to reduce by one in ten. I think it will be rather worse than that!
How can it be ‘fair’ that a claimant injured at work will be treated differently to one injured in an RTA if both claims are worth roughly £3-5k?
It does, to me at least seem wide open for numerous challanges, discuss…..