
.The latest wave of significant legal changes are set to come into effect in October 2018 as the Government proceeds to tackle the mythical ‘compensation culture’ in the UK by introducing a tariff scheme for whiplash compensation, amongst other measures.
The Ministry of Justice has based its proposals on two key objectives of reducing what it perceives as the number of ‘fraudulent’ whiplash compensation claims and states that this will in turn lower the insurance premiums paid by all motorists.