What is stopping Personal Injury Mediation?

15 January 2009, 4.30pm - 6.00pm The CII Insurance Hall, 20 Aldermanbury, London, EC2V 7HY

A seminar raising important issues concerning insurance related personal injury claims and the use of mediation to settle such claims. Organised by The Forum of Insurance Lawyers. Chaired by Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls The proposed topics are: What is the evidence of lack of progress? Are the lawyers to blame? On what side? Is the Judiciary to blame, at what level? Is the MoJ to blame? Is the Rules Committee to blame? What is the experience of insurer’s pilots? Is the volume of cases sufficient, if not what are the reasons? What of pilots on the claimant side? Why are any of those parties resistant? Concern about fees, loss of control, fear of the unknown, ignorance, size of claims, too expensive? Having identified the factors preventing the development of mediation how do we tackle them?