Nicholas Bevan welcomes attempts to assuage the victims of uninsured drivers, but says there is more to be done
After years of campaigning, the minister for transport has finally stripped the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) of the power to impose numerous unjust and arbitrary strike-out provisions that pepper the compensatory scheme for victims of uninsured drivers which it manages on the government’s behalf, These enable the MIB to avoid compensating accident victims. See my article “Why the Uninsured Drivers Agreement 1999 needs to be scrapped” which was published in the Journal of Personal Injury Law in 2012, and my four-part series of articles,“On the right road?”, published in NLJ in 2013, in which I called for extensive and wide ranging reform of the UK’s statutory and extra-statutory provision for implementing the European Directives on motor insurance that require member states to guarantee that motor accident victims recover their full legal entitlement (see 163 NLJ 7546, p 94; 163 NLJ 7547, p 130; 163 NLJ 7548, p 160; 163 NLJ 7549, p 193).
A succession of transport ministers have,
