The Compensation Culture
This is yet another phrase, like “no-win no-fee”, that seems now to be familiar to everyone and yet is also appears to be a phrase that is used disapprovingly and seems to suggest that there is maybe something wrong with bringing a claim for personal injury compensation.
Why Bringing Your Claim for Personal Injury Compensation has Nothing to do with the “Compensation Culture”
It is the law that if an individual suffers personal injury through no fault of their own but instead through the fault of another individual or organisation then they are entitled to seek personal injury compensation with the aim of placing that individual in the same position as if the accident had not happened. The phrase “The Compensation Culture” somehow seems to try to suggest that there is something cynical or greedy in this. There is not. Any individual who brings a claim for personal injury compensation following an accident is not following “The Compensation Culture”; they are instead seeking only what they are entitled to under the law.
Remember: The purpose of personal injury compensation is to place an individual only in the same position as if the accident had not happened – there is no betterment, there is no greed – the individual is only seeking what they are legally entitled to.