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Raynor Goddard 11.34 - SPOT. ON. We are a service profession and all that we have to give is our experience and advice, but at what worth? Nothing it would appear. I spend half of my day filling in paperwork and frontloading files when under the old regime I would have been sitting down with an insurance rep with his pile of files and my pile of files and sorting things out. Instruction to settlement, depending upon medical evidence, and with the minimum of useless paperwork. Happy client, satisfied Defendant, bish, bosh, done. And when it came to costs, I would show my working out like longhand arithmetic and I would be given what I could show I had done legitimately and realistically and PROPORTIONALLY, and thus receive a proper payment for using the brain I was instructed to use.

Where there people who tried to abuse this system? Of course there were. Did they get away with it? Sometimes. But on the whole, when asked to show how you arrived at profit costs figure £X, if you could then you could have it. This guessing at what I might incur if the sun came up at midnight on a Wednesday in November baffles me. Not to mention the time taken at having to do it that could better be used in trying to move matters along to settlement - which must be better for all parties, surely?

I hate this job now. I'm not proud of what I do because what I essentially do is kowtow to ridiculous requirements and do nothing that feels remotely like I'm fighting anybody's corner. Even when I get a settlement it's tarnished because I fear I've spent too long reviewing a medical report and therefore eaten into the profit margins available in the derisory fixed fee table. If the fixed fees represented even remotely the steps taken to get to the set down goals, I would have no problem. But they don't. They're no more achievable than squeezing a pint into a quart pot.

No, I don't hate the job. I loathe it. It's all politics and point-scoring and it's nothing to be proud of. If I was ten years younger I'd be looking at a career change but I'm stuck limping into retirement with an ever decreasing interest in sitting at my desk.

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