Thomas Cook personal injury fund unlikely to provide full compensation, lawyers warn
A government scheme due to be set up to pay the personal injury claims of Thomas Cook customers is unlikely to be sufficient to provide claimants with full compensation and may be open to abuse, lawyers have warned.
The government pledged to set up a statutory compensation scheme after it emerged the travel company had only taken out cover for the “very largest” personal injury claims.
It had chosen to self
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