Originally Posted by
DanW@FastFord
And all the while the ambulance chasers coin it in! Our insurance goes to pay for these leeches to fight it out amongst themselves! They love you to contest it so they can send snotty letters backwards and forwards and charge three figure sums for each one.
Common sense seems to have deserted this country, everyone is out for what they can scam or get on the sly
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I think people make FAR too much of minor accidents, I can understand the need for compensation in major cases, but the average shunt just does not do that much damage IMHO, and I have been a passenger a few times after being smacked into at various speeds.
The only people winning out of this are the Soliciters, insurance is going up and speed limits are coming down because of this