Dominic Regan remains optimistic about the future of injury litigation
The depressing news that a greatly respected major claimant road traffic firm was consulting upon mass redundancies no doubt confirmed the anxious fears of many. While it is as obvious as it is inevitable that claimant injury practices are going to be squeezed, it is by no means the end of the world for a variety of reasons.
Good news
I was elated to learn that the futile extension of the portal regime, so as to embrace employers’ liability (EL) claims, has been postponed. If wisdom prevails it will be quietly abandoned. It is wrong on so many fronts. There is no database of insurers as in road traffic accidents (RTAs) and the law can be mightily complex. I see no benefit in constructing an expensive and elaborate portal in an area where the majority of cases supposedly caught will exit. Since the simple RTA portal loses about 50% of cases I would anticipate that at least 80% of EL matters would slide away.
Likewise, the proposal to increase the existing RTA
