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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries by Sonia Macleod Professor Christopher Hodges
This ground-breaking book takes a fresh look at potential non-litigation solutions to providing personal injury compensation. It is the first systematic comparative study of such a large number – over forty – of personal injury compensation schemes. It covers the drivers for their creation the frameworks under which they operate the criteria and thresholds used the compensation offered the claims process statistics on throughput and costs and analysis of financial costings. It also considers and compares the successes and failings of these schemes. Conclusions are drawn about the functions essential requirements architecture scope operation and performance of personal injury compensation systems. The relationships between such schemes the courts and regulators are also discussed and both calls and need for reforms are noted. Noting the wide calls for reform of NHS medical negligence litigation within the UK and its replacement with a no blame approach the authors’ findings outline options for future policy in this area. This major contribution builds on general shifts from courts to ADR and from blame to no blame in regulation and is a work that has the potential to have a major impact on the field of personal injury redress.