Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)’s Post

The insurance industry must stop its "persistent demonising of victims of negligence to suit its own agenda", APIL has said in response to an article in the Scottish Daily Mail. In the article, insurers suggested that insurance bills are set to rocket for Scottish families. This was in reference to proposed regulations to increase the compensation allowance for tax and investment advice, which came out of a recent consultation on the range of factors to be taken into account when setting the personal injury discount rate. “Compensation is not a windfall. Every penny paid to people with catastrophic life-changing injuries is needed for care, support, and living costs, often for the rest of their lives,” said APIL’s immediate past president Jonathan Scarsbrook in a letter of response. “Alastair Ross (from the ABI) suggests quite shamelessly that severely injured people will have too much money," said Jonathan. “The reality is that the proposed change still falls far short of covering the cost of advice. Professional advice is vital for injured people. These are not canny investors. They are vulnerable and inexperienced, and need to ensure their compensation will stretch to meet their needs,” he said. Read APIL’s reaction in full here: https://lnkd.in/gt4g_Vpe #compensation #personalinjury #discountrate #investmentadvice #insurance

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Claire Glasgow

Director at Fieldfisher. Solicitor - serious injury and sexual assault claims. Headway Sussex Trustee & Volunteer

6mo

This is such an important message: ‘’Compensation is not a windfall. Every penny paid to people with catastrophic life-changing injuries is needed for care, support, and living costs, often for the rest of their lives,” As claimant solicitors we have to challenge this erroneous (but sadly widely held) perception that compensation is some kind of windfall at every opportunity.

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