Accident no win no fee!

[Joshy]

Milk it for all its worth - look out for Number 1 and screw everyone else as long as you personally are better off as a result?

Welcome to real life Fox.

Something tells me you're going to struggle here .

 

[Gaygle]

Welcome to real life Fox.

Something tells me you're going to struggle here .

I admire his honesty and integrity, but it's nothing short of worthless these days. For every one person like fox, there are 100 that will milk it for all it's worth.

I know that is an utterly defeatist attitude to have, and i'm certainly not saying that i would make false claims (because i most certainly wouldn't), but i see why people do it - easy money in tight times.

 

[Joshy]

I admire the honesty, but I don't admire the snide remarks or sense that he generally looks down his nose at people who do not have the integrity (or financial security) to say "No" when someone essentially says "Do you want some free money?".

I'm far from a fan of compensation culture myself, but I'm a "Don't hate the Player, hate the game" type of guy .

 

[Gaygle]

I don't admire the snide remarks or sense that he generally looks down his nose at people who do not have the integrity (or financial security) to say "No" when someone essentially says "Do you want some free money?".

Ah well this is where we disagree. People that dishonestly appropriate this money, no matter how easy it is, deserve to be looked down on and it should not be encouraged.

It's like finding £3k on the floor. Sure it's very easy to take it, but people who do take it are in effect stealing it from someone else and deserve to be berated.

 

[MikeHiow]

It isn't about integrity or financial security to turn down money, it is about money you are entitled to according to case law.

Most people told me I would be looking at £4k for whiplash, in fact, even earlier in the thread someone said £3750 is the "going rate". Which I'm sure you'd get if you milked it for all its worth (or had a genuinely serious problem, as my Grandmother did who received over £4k).

I could have milked it, but saw it as an entitlement of compensation and not just "free money". That compensation is for actual losses, for suffering (Money is the only form of compensation here, as they cannot take it back!) and for treatment. My solicitor has asked the other party for significantly less than £4k based on me being completely honest.

But in all honestly, if you were in a rut financially, were involved in a non-fault accident but suffered no injury, how many of you could honestly say they wouldn't milk it for all that its worth if it would pull you out of said rut? No doubt the moral high-ground crew will still be saying they wouldn't, but lets face it - we all know you're lying.

I wonder how long it is before Fox tries to associate the previous paragraph with my claim

I could see why people would get all ethical if this was coming out of the third party's pocket, but it isn't - it's paid for by insurance. Those of you moaning about insurance prices because of compensation claims, there is even more reason for you to claim; Insurance will continue to rise whether you claim or not, so why not just take your money and offset it against your insurance costs at least!

 

[Joshy]

If a system can be exploited, people will exploit it.

I imagine people have been running scams and playing the system since cavemen started exchanging shiny rocks as currency. This is nothing new and as far as I'm concerned, pretty much human nature.

 

[mufc802]

I could see why people would get all ethical if this was coming out of the third party's pocket, but it isn't - it's paid for by insurance. Those of you moaning about insurance prices because of compensation claims, there is even more reason for you to claim; Insurance will continue to rise whether you claim or not, so why not just take your money and offset it against your insurance costs at least!

If everyone had this view nobody would be able to afford insurance anymore. Insurance will not rise we didn't claim, so don't talk nonsense.

And honestly I wouldn't "milk it" if I were involved in a non-fault accident but suffered no injury, like most members on here I hope.

 

[JohnMac]

The reason my insurance has pretty much stayed the same, or gone up for the last two years.... is people like you sir.

Please do spend my extra premium and other peoples money wisely. I enjoy paying for your sore neck.

I've been involved in three crashes, none of them my fault, passenger in all of them and not once did my sore neck, or the spineboard I incurred for one of them prompt me to claim some compensation.

So to all you milk it men, thanks for my insurance price basically increasing on a group four car! Much love

Tommy T

xxx

Agreed, my car insurance doubled this year... DOUBLED!! I am now paying £1000 a year as a 31 year old with full no claims! If you arnt injured severely enough to warrant "compensation" then do the rest of the country a favour and dont do it. If it was up to me i would ban the concept of no win no fee claims entirely.

 

[MikeHiow]

If everyone had this view nobody would be able to afford insurance anymore. Insurance will not rise we didn't claim, so don't talk nonsense.

And honestly I wouldn't "milk it" if I were involved in a non-fault accident but suffered no injury, like most members on here I hope.

My point is one person making a difference etc.

Agreed, my car insurance doubled this year... DOUBLED!! I am now paying £1000 a year as a 31 year old with full no claims! If you arnt injured severely enough to warrant "compensation" then do the rest of the country a favour and dont do it. If it was up to me i would ban the concept of no win no fee claims entirely.

Sounds like you blindly accepted your renewal or had a change of circumstances. I'm much younger than you, and my insurance is still consistently going down.

 

[MrMoonX]

i had this after I had an accident, think my insurance company sold them my details, this was after someone crashed into my parked car with no one in it, fail!

 

[DM]

This country is too far gone down the compensation road now.

If no one claimed for injury i dont believe for one second the insurance industry would suddenly knock a third off everyones quote, so to that end we only have our self to blame, everyone jumped on this band wagon and now we are enjoying the premiums to pay for it.

This whole no win no fee situation is here to stay in my opinion so i honestly dont give a toss anymore who claims what, i wouldnt bother if it wasnt serious but if the next person wants to then great crack on.

What irritates me are the "justifiers" dont bother spouting off line after line about why you claimed, a blind man on a galloping horse can see why you claimed, for the free money, just say it.

 

[[TW]Fox]

But in all honestly, if you were in a rut financially, were involved in a non-fault accident but suffered no injury, how many of you could honestly say they wouldn't milk it for all that its worth if it would pull you out of said rut? No doubt the moral high-ground crew will still be saying they wouldn't, but lets face it - we all know you're lying.

Personal experience?

I wonder how long it is before Fox tries to associate the previous paragraph with my claim