Proposed laws will benefit those in posh jobs but penalise those in areas like factory and building work. The aim is to crack down on an “epidemic” of fraud by drivers claiming compensation for false whiplash injuries after road accidents. More than 40 per cent of those injured at work will lose their right to have legal representation. Horse riders, cyclists and gardeners will be exempt from the new limits but rail workers, builders and car workers will not. Tom Jones, of employment lawyers Thompsons, said:” Not only is this toffs’ charter undemocratic, it will leave injured workers fighting insurers on their own and in their own time, excluded from justice.

Source: Daily Mirror December 21, 2019 21:56 UTC