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PI Brief Update

Six Months To Go: April 2013 and Beyond - Julie Carlisle, Henmans LLP

17/10/12. The world of Personal Injury is currently facing unprecedented change. The Road Traffic Accident Portal has already fundamentally altered the way motor accident claims worth less than £10,000 are handled, and the proposed extension of the scheme upwards to claims worth £25,000 and sideways to non traffic accident claims means that the landscape that some of us have worked within for years is about to be remoulded beyond recognition.

Will we all survive the extension of the Portal? If the rumours are true that costs could be limited to £600 for a case worth up to £10,000 - and possibly beyond - then it becomes hard to see how many firms will be able to make a profit without receiving a steady stream of pre-medical report offers – a settlement situation that most us have rejected to date leaving us open as it does, quite apart from other considerations, to accusations of under settlement at a later stage.  And yet we have also heard that...

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