Legal fees in claims

[T.C]

Thought you may be interested in this as one of the many gripes made by claimants and defendants alike in road crash cases is that the only people who seem to make any money are the Solicitors.

About 12 months or so ago, fixed fees were introduced in lower value end claims, well these fees are to be reduced again.

The chances are that before long, smaller or lower value injury claims will only be handled by insurance companies as there will not be many law firms who will be prepared to take on cases where it might mean that they cannot represent the client properly, or they will be handled by non qualified staff (which is already starting to occur)

For the purposes of clarity, the proposals are that fixed fees in portal cases are to be allocated as follows:

RTA claims up to £10,000 - £500 in total fees

EL/PL claims up to £10,000 - £900 in total

RTA claims between £10,000 and £25,000 - £800 in total

EL/PL claims between £10,000 and £25,000 - £1,600 in total

EL/PL stands for Employer Liability and Public Liability for those who were wondering.
____________________
It is better to arrive 30 seconds late in this world, than 30 years early in the next

[goto10]

In other words, solicitors will push 'victims' into hamming up their injuries even further in order to get past the thresholds :)
At least _something_ is being done though.
____________________
'12 NC700S & '12 CB600F Hornet [Stolen by some dickless twat] Suzuki GT500 shed

[Rogerborg]

Or will say "Sod it, 50/50, we don't have the budget to argue it out. It'll all come out of the punters pockets' either way."
____________________
Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[T.C]