DWF Insurance Costs Update
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Date: 03/02/12
Since 30 April 2010, personal injury motor claims with a value of up to £10,000 have fallen under the RTA PI Scheme for low value motor claims with its prescribed fixed costs regime. For those cases which either pre-date or drop out of the RTA PI Scheme, the fallback provision is the fixed recoverable costs regime for low value RTA cases contained in Section II of CPR Part 45.
With costs tightly controlled under both of these schemes, it was perhaps inevitable that a battleground would emerge wherever claimants see the potential to obtain full costs.
Against the backdrop of ongoing government reform designed to curb the excesses of civil litigation, a number of recent decisions show that the courts are not prepared to allow any of the fixed costs regimes to be undermined.
In this guide, Nigel Teasdale, Scott Smeaton & Steven Dawson draw out the useful lessons for insurers from these decisions and highlight their wider significance should the government decide to expand the fixed costs regimes beyond motor claims.
Please click on the pdf icon below to read the guide in full.
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