The year ahead


Email your opinions to editorial@barkerbrooks.co.uk Te year ahead


2013 was a year of incredible upheaval for the claims sector, but what does 2014 have in store?


MoJ looks to review referral fee ban?


Medical panel plans released?


Small claims limit to rise?


The claims sector is bracing itself for another 12 months of change with 2014 shaping up to be just as eventful as last year. Uncertainty once again hangs over solicitors and the wider


industry like a dark cloud. Firms are still digesting the Mitchell decision, while wondering


whether satellite litigation around personal injury cases is about take off; medical experts await to see how far the Government's intervention into medico-legal reporting with the setting up


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of panels will affect them; credit hire companies are nervously waiting to hear what the Competition Commission comes up with after its preliminary report into the motor insurance industry; and CMCs are bracing themselves for a new wave of rules and regulations. Given these, and many more issues that could crop up this


year, Claims Magazine asked a few industry figures about their hopes, fears and predictions for 2014.


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