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1. No views on S&G beyond having a dim view of ambulance chasers generally, but hey, where's there's blame there's a claim and some of them are very good at extracting money for this sort of stuff. The sniffiness towards their ilk from most lawyers is probably down to the fact most lawyers don't earn as much as the handful of people who run these outfits. Some of them are properly minted.

2. Because they'll take 30% (or whatever) of your compo. But that still leaves you with 70% of something you wouldn't otherwise have had.

3. Sitting it out relies on them getting to court and winning, which would set a precedent for your own small claims case afterwards. However, it's unlikely to get to court to set such a precedent (see the recent GDPR breach action against BA, where BA settled it). As soon as it looks like the action might actually succeed, it will be settled.

4. Nah f**k 'em. I always say to cut out the lawyers where it makes sense to do so. In these cases, however, if you're going to bother claiming for it at all, you may as well let the ambulance chasers do the leg work for you. It's not like PPI where there's a statutory/regulatory regime where you just whack in a letter and get your compo. You'd have to start a claim, with the time, costs and paperwork involved. Is your time worth less than the the 30% slice S&G take? It's your call.

However there are risks around joining these - not least the possibility of getting a share of an adverse costs order against you (I don't know how real the risk is, you can probably insure against it for a further slice of your compo).

*If you can de-risk it* then this sort of thing strikes me as free money, even if the ambulance chasers/insurers/other third parties take more of it than you do. It's not like it's money you'd have had otherwise anyway.

there's often a moral angle - eg frivolous claims make things more expensive for everyone else, but here - IDK. these car giants knew what they were doing and have deep enough pockets.

5. No worries.

Posted By: CWC, Jul 9, 09:40:10