Number of cases registered to government’s compensation recovery unit falls by 33,104

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UK is not in the grip of ‘rampant compensation culture’ as registered cases drop between 2018-2019 and 2019-2020

The Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) has recorded a decline in registered cases needing its services between 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 and 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 – registered cases have fallen from 862,356 to 829,252 over this time frame across clinical negligence, employer, motor and public liability claims.

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