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I can't believe some of the comments on here. We are talking about the livelihoods of not just admin clerks and button pushers but lawyers who have spent their entire careers building a practice and employing and training people. Lower value PI claims are what we train on and they help pay the bills, which allows us to take on the more complex and difficult higher value claims on a no win, no fee basis.

We help thousands of injured people get some compensation for their pain (and believe me neck pain is no fun when you can't sleep or move without pain), and for their lost earnings. a couple of grand may be nothing to some of you but when you're on the minimum wage, it's a lifeline.

Why should insurers be able to take premiums for covering losses they don't actually end up having to pay out because victims don't even know how to start making a claim on their own?

It's a myth that claims are rising, that they're all fraudulent. Claims have been reducing for years while premiums and insurers' profits have increased exponentially.

They haven't passed on any of the savings they've made since LASPO. They won't pass on a penny of the savings they make from these reforms. They will just make yet more money and keep stiffing policyholders with higher and higher premiums.

Meanwhile, injured people will suffer and recover nothing, solicitors will lose their jobs and firms will go under, and the DWP and the NHS will recover even less benefits and treatment costs and insurers profits will go up even further.

And what exactly is wrong with asking clients to pay 25% of their damages towards the costs of their case? Other litigants have to pay their solicitors' costs and never get the whole lot back from the other side if they win. Why is that wrong for PI clients? How many of you don't charge the client if you lose? How many of you pay out huge disbursements you can't recover until the case ends, sometimes years after you've had to pay them?

How dare some of you castigate claimant lawyers for doing our job and getting compensation for our clients while at the same time earning a living? How many of you posting your sneering comments put your homes on the line to keep your businesses running while you fund your clients' cases because they can't?