Apil’s Scarsbrook on why the personal injury discount rate isn’t about insurance
Trade Voice: Past president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Jonathan Scarsbrook, says injured victims of negligence must not be made scapegoats for the insurer’s inability to control their costs.
The last government claimed that it was committed to the principle of 100% compensation for injured victims of negligence. It did not deliver, as a third of catastrophically injured people are not
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