Miners Seek Compensation For ‘Missed’ Claims
A number of miners have recently claimed that the compensation level they received from the government for industrial injuries has not been satisfactory. Leeds county court is now set to review the claims of around 20 miners against the solicitors who originally advised them.
All of the men involved are suffering from a condition commonly referred to as, ‘vibration white finger.’ This causes pain and sometimes even numbness. The miners are seeking compensation in order to claim for the tasks they need to employ people to do for them such as DIY and gardening maintenance.
The government have claimed that the scheme was rolled out fairly and in the interests of the miners. If the twenty miners are successful in this fresh batch of claims then there is another 50,000 cases likely to go to court for review.
The former solicitors who represented the miners made claims under the government run compensation scheme which meant that they did not have to go to court.
A few extreme claims reached up to twenty five thousand pounds annually although others were just for a couple of thousand pounds each year.
The government scheme was founded to cover two types of injury, white finger and lung disease due to the impact of inhaling in dust and coal. The scheme has now paid out an estimated 4.1 billion pounds to date.
The big issue concerned is that miners were given inadequate information regarding their legal position by their solicitors. Some cases have now been settled out of court but many law firms are still claiming that they did nothing incorrect.
Recently there has been lots of interest over the controversy surrounding the compensation scheme and some solicitors have been accused of deducting client fees when they were actually receiving costs from the scheme.
Over 3.6 million worth of deductions have now been identified by the Legal Complaints Service and the recovered money has now been returned to the miners that were treated unfairly by their law firms.
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