Compensation Claims To The Motor Insurers' Bureau (Mib)

[shortpaul]

With the aid of a solicitor I am persuing a claim with the MIBm uder bthw 'untraced drivers agreement'.

I find my solicitors' guidance concerning the proceedure for a claim I am making a little questionable. The claim appears to be approaching a possible succesful conclusion. The solicitor is implying that he now 'values' the claim, pricing the compensation that he feels should be due for pain,suffering and loss of amenity together with a sum for losses of earnings and costs incurred by myself as a result of the accident and submits a bill to the MIB. In short, implying that he takes the lead in valuing everything. Is he correct or is the situation as I suspect i.e. that the MIB make the valuations and they themselves will make an offer to me for my and my solicitors' consideration?

[Arrods]

Surely it's up to you in consultation with your solicitor to value and submit the claim. The MIB won't know what your lost earnings, expenses are.

[fiction-factory]

Yes, you claim and then MIB agrees or, more likely, starts negotiations

[Peter Pedant]

well done and good luck

I found MIB pretty useless when I tried it
like we identified the driver eventually ourselves
and he said - wodger mean ? I am insured !

honestly the whole thing was a waste of time ....

another time I was contacted myself
by some officious jobsworth
answer within ten days or else you will be hanged drawn and quartered under the road traffic acts as amended ....

and I was able to show by means of copies I had taken that I had conclusively sold on the vehicle 16 weeks before .....
[ so I was obviously uninsured for whatever had happened afterwards ]