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No, the reason for the reforms was as a culmination of two decades of concerted, carefully planned, well-funded work on the part of the insurance lobby, involving multiple, generous donations to Tory ministers and their relentless saturation of the media with unfounded, unevidenced claims regarding "the compensation culture". They have managed to bring about a situation in which the people who act for the dead and injured are perceived as the bad guys. It really is a staggering achievement.