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Personal injury solicitors are expecting a rise in the number of compensation claims made in the coming years, a study by Grant Thornton has found.
45% of those interviewed said that they expect they will be seeing 20% more claims than at present, and the remainder believed there would be no change. The personal injury solicitors who were interviewed gave many different reasons for their belief that the number of compensation claims would increase, one of which was that of greater awareness.
With compensation claim adverts featuring regularly on daytime television, people who are injured and at home from work are the target audience. Since the proliferation of personal injury specialist companies using mass media advertising, people may feel more confident and familiar with making a compensation claim, and so are more likely to go ahead with one.
Another reason given by the personal injury solicitors of the rising number of compensation claims was that of a “compensation culture” similar to that of America . Some of the interviewees believed that people were becoming quicker to take the option of legal action, whereas in the past alternative routes may have been explored.
The number of bogus or exaggerated compensation claims being made was shown in the study as having increased by 22% since the last year. Respondents believed that greedy people were the cause of this increase, encouraged by adverts by unethical claims farmers that seemingly promised easy returns.
The majority of the personal injury solicitors interviewed (55%) wished to see a return to Legal Aid and no win, no fee schemes to be abolished, in the hope that this would halt the growth of a “compensation culture” in the UK.
