The Compensation Culture

Whippy Lash Asks: What's happening in the world, has it gone compensation crazy? Everyone it seems is slipping, tripping and falling about the place. Furthermore they are wrenching every bone and joint in their bodies. Vehicle insurance premiums have gone through the roof on the basis of whiplash claims. Where will it all end?

The old days where you had to pursue a claim for compensation and also had to pay to do it have long gone. The no win, no fee change to the law means that even frivolous claims can now be pursued   Without a doubt it now it has been established, that wherever there is a blame, there is also a claim.  That whatever happens to befall you in life, must be due to someone else's fault. The whole concept of natural risk, the gamble we take when we get out of bed is now a thing of the past.

The German U boat fleet commanders had a saying "the happy times" when they ranged the oceans sinking ships at will. Now its "the happy time" for the worlds second oldest profession. What's more the legal profession is also going to do to you, exactly the same as what the oldest profession does.

No longer is conveyancing their bread and butter work. It's now changed to compensation claims. Like the German U boat wolf-packs - they are circling like sharks touting for business. Chugging the high-street and slick Whiplash 4U advertisements on television. Posters on walls and in the newspapers.

It is so bad that the circling buzzards compensation specialists have an on line compensation payout calculator. All based around what your award might be if you have a whiplash injury. So from the pick-and-mix list of symptoms you can determine what your own level of compensation might be. Click Here

If you employ people, then you must stop now. Make everyone redundant while you still have the chance. You and your business are definitely at risk from all kinds of compensation claims. It seems that everyone and their relatives is out to sue the employer. The one who provides their living on any pretext at all. The compensation claims will roll in, from the workforce for doing the job they are paid by you to do. All businesses must now carry out or pay for expensive risk assessments to be made.

Individuals as well as employers can also be sued. The people that help to run after school clubs of all kinds for our kids are at risk. Small groups such as the local junior football team or the scouts. Now the small groups  have little choice but to impose strict rules to protect themselves from litigation. The much vaunted "Promotion of Volunteering Bill" intended to protect these individuals from the compensation culture was blocked in parliament. The whole culture of blame and claim compensation, means that anyone can behave badly and be totally irresponsible.  We can  ignore the most basic of common sense. Because when things go wrong, someone else is to blame.  

Regards.

Uncle Mort.