Vampires - stoopid
Compensation culture I don't subscribe to but understand why and how it has become so prevalent.

Sixty something percent of current MP's have a legal background. Any legislation favouring the legal profession will be voted through the house without question or significant opposition.

The compensation "lawyers" (the vast majority have no legal qualifications - or qualifications of any sort - to their name) are at the bottom of the legal food chain but garner huge income to support the top end, so legislation tends to become distorted towards the claimant.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 19:47, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Evenin' TD
So in other words, lawyers are just like vampires.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 19:53, Reply)

In that I don't believe in them, yes.
As a body, they are nepotistic and self serving.

Individually, like most professions, there are some good 'uns but also like most professions the stuff at the top of the tree is the least accessible.

All these firms advertising on daytime TV are primarily staffed by McDonalds rejects, quite legitimately. I forget the figure, but the Law Society says that a qualified solicitor may supervise x number of clerks, and these untrained uneducated clerks will deal with your compensation claim.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:09, Reply)

Gah! McLawyers
"Would you like fries with your compensation claim?"
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:11, Reply)

That's pretty much the way it works
Your injury will be put into a program and a value will be generated.

The insurer will put the same information into a similar program.

The award will be somewhere between the two values.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 20:26, Reply)