80,000 miners to receive money wrongfully deducted from their compensation claims
Solicitors who represented hundreds of miners under the coal health compensation scheme are to repay £1.5 million after wrongfully deducting it from their client’s settlements. The Legal Complaints Service has instigated a process involving seven law firms which has seen them write to over 33,000 former miners or their families who might be eligible to claim back some of this money.
The repayment project was launched back in 2007 in an effort to see that the estimated 80,000 miners who made compensation claims through the government scheme got back some of the money their solicitors either pocketed or passed on to the miners’ union. The Legal Complaints service reckons those affected are owed on average £400. Around 50,000 miners are still waiting to be contacted by their solicitors about the deductions.
At Camps Solicitors, although we did not take part in the miners’ compensation scheme, it is encouraging to see the law firms that were are taking steps to make up for their poor behaviour in the past. We run all our personal injury compensation claims on a No-Win No-Fee and our clients keep 100% of the compensation they are awarded, with no hidden deductions – all our costs are claimed back separately from the insurance companies.
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