Blog: Whiplash reforms will present operational challenges for insurers, warns a claimant lawyer
Alan Hayes, chief legal officer at Carpenters Group, argues the delayed whiplash reforms will bring unintended consequences.
The delay in the proposed implementation of the whiplash claims reforms until April 2020 was generally welcomed by the insurance industry for the pragmatic reason of wishing to get it right, perhaps
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