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I said no connection to either side, but from your comments I suspect your connection is towards the defendant side, or biased by that viewpoint. I admit to bias towards the claimant side.

Concerning the difference in numbers of whiplash claims here and in other countries, factor in the legal systems too. Otherwise you could say we should all have crashes in Lithuania as nobody gets whiplash there.

The "£400 club" was a disgrace, but given that insurers can recover the stage 1 costs paid where a stage 2 pack failed to materialise, no doubt they are recovering the costs paid. Or have they written these sums off? Personally I'd go after each and every claimant.

I disagree that someone should not be compensated for a minor injury, and no I'm not a paralegal hoping for £600. It is £500 and really that doesn't pay for any type of client care, more a bish bash bosh approach and you can forget client care.

The claimant PI sector will not get any sympathy because the general public is in thrall to insurer propaganda and the bleatings of the daily rags. As an unpleasant example, once the Sun got going who can honestly say they didn't believe it was Liverpudlians to blame for Hillsborough?

All that aside, I do believe the RTA side of things has a problem. In particular the "epidemic" of CMCs out there touting for work, together with rogue experts, solicitors with add-on enterprises including the cancer that is credit hire.

My opinion:
- Ban CMCs whether overt or as a "marketing tool".
- Have a Medco system for treatment providers or require compensating insurers to arrange treatment
- Get rid of ABSs
- Make illegal, on pain of disqualification of directors, the sale of personal information allowing unsolicited approaches

Whilst you're at it, do the same for every part of the legal profession including conveyancing referrals etc.

Oh yes, anyone guilty of fraud or a fraudulent claim, string them up. Anyone found to be aiding and abetting, string them up too.

Leave the innocent injured claimants alone.