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Will the new claims process ever be introduced?
All About Law. | 01.12.2009I was lucky enough to be invited onto a Ministry of Justice working party meeting a year ago where I offered my opinion on the proposed changes to the system regarding the RTA process. One certainty that I took from that experience was that I needed to prepare for the introduction last month.
- I would have made a large monetery bet that it would now be in. When this date changed to April next year I'd have put my mortgage on it being introduced by then. Yet low and behold there is talk about it being put back to May and maybe even later!I think this is a reflection on how difficult RTA law actually is and the complexities of the rules as they stand, let alone drafting new rules. Perhaps this will help disspell the perception that a cleaner could run an RTA case (as suggested by a judge in Manchester at a cost hearing on an RTA case).There has been a report recently about how referral fees are now biting insurers on the bum. I'm glad that this seems to now be out in the open. Insurers seem to charge the most for PI cases and then scream foul that costs are driven up because of them. Do they tell their clients how much they recieve per PI case like a claims management regulated company has two?I suspect they dress it up along the lines of an annual fee rather disclose the full amount per case. Hopefully the new claims process will bring them down but who knows.
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