Löfstedt: Prolegal comment on the report - Susan Brown, Director and Head of Personal Injury and Professional Negligence, Prolegal
09/12/11. Professor Lofstedt’s report is in fact very sensible and measured, and certainly makes no concessions to tabloid hysteria about the horrors of “elf and safety” law. Professor Lofstedt confirms that there is no case for radically altering health and safety legislation, that the current regime places responsibility primarily on those who create the risks, enabling them to control them in a proportionate manner, and states that there is evidence to suggest that proportionate risk management can make good business sense. He considers that the problem lies less with the regulations themselves and more with the way they are interpreted and applied.
In terms of the proposals that would affect personal injury claims, while confirming that the compensation culture is a myth and that it is media coverage and the false perception that impacts employer behaviour rather than any real increase in...
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