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'....Ministers finally sought to get a grip of holiday sickness claims today with the confirmation that fixed recoverable costs are to be extended to the sector. ..'

This is about the long and the short of it, though the reason for fraudulent claims lies solely in the Profession and the Govt.'s lap for abolishing the rule against Maintenance and Champerty which held this sort of behaviour back or made it impossibly expensive to pull....

"....The Law Society has urged the government not to restrict genuine claims in efforts to clamp down on fraud and said insurers should not pay out on claims which are either fraudulent or which lack legal merit. .."

The Law Society should stay out of this and work on how to out the genie back in the bottle they have created by allowing these 'reforms' to litigation with the (Non) Access To Justice Act 2000.

Scruff.