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Medco have announced their fees . £15,000.00 plus VAT pa for small MROs and £75,000.00 plus VAT pa for the big boys. The small MROs also have to have cash/a bond of £20,000.00 and the big boys cash/a bond of £100,000.00.

These eye watering sums are clearly designed to destroy the small MROs. If they made a profit of £50.00 per file, they would have to handle 300 files per year just to pay the fees. And there is no guarantee from MedCo of the number of files they would get.

The whole system is a clear restraint of trade and I hope some owner of a small MRO takes the Government to the European Court.

By contrast, independent medical experts have to pay only £150.00 plus VAT pa and it is clear that that is where the MOJ want the work to go. Any claimant PI lawyer will know how difficult it is to get in contact with a medical expert or their secretary. Going forward the Claimant lawyer will be left with trying to contact different experts on every file to try to find out their expertise, when they will see their Client, how long it will take them to prepare their report and when they want to be paid. I also fail to see how a Claimant lawyer can be acting in the best interests of their Client in sending them to a randomly selected expert.

Finally, the Medco User agreement is so biased against Claimant lawyers that no commercial lawyer would sign it.eg MedCo limit their liability for negligence/ breach of contract to £500.00 whereas the Claimant lawyer has unlimited liability to Medco!

Truly unbelievable

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