You may have seen the stories in the last week reporting £82 million having been paid out by 90 local authorities who responded to a Freedom of Information request by the Liberal Democrats. Amongst those reporting it were the BBC and so the Local Government Chronicle. I have had a look at the research and the most striking element is not the usual “compensation culture” headlines – what it shows is a dramatic fall year-on-year for the past 5 years. From 2004 the figures have been £28 million, £20m, £15m, £11m down to £6.7m.
I am not sure what the explanation for this is. What do you think?
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Perhaps the increasing use of CFA’s with ATE insurance means that claimant solicitors are less willing to take the risk of going to trial on a highway trip and slip (which are often 50/50 at best) when the financial risk is entirely their own?