It is worth remembering that the new scheme for dealing with lower -
value road traffic accident claims, which represent the majority of personal injury claims under # 5,000, is scheduled for introduction in April 2010.
In low
value road traffic accident claims in the portal there has been a 40 % reduction in fees and, as early anecdotal evidence suggests, higher value cases in the multi track code are costing up to 50 % less.
Not exact matches
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Motor
Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) contested a decision made by the Ministry of Justice to significantly reduce the fees recoverable by lawyers for cases managed through the
road traffic accident (RTA) Portal, the online system via which low
value personal injury
claims are processed.
The findings show that the average
value of
road traffic accident (RTA) personal injury
claims rose by 3.4 per cent, while insurance pay - outs for small employers» and public liability (EL / PL) personal injury
claims also increased by an average of 10 and 12 per cent respectively in this period.