Just got off phone with the Compensation Recovery Unit at the DWP (http://www.dwp.gov.uk/other-specialists/...very-unit/) after reading this thread.
I had an off that was a goddamn suped up, tinted windows, boy racer's fault - no broken bones. Turns out if you do win a personal injury claim then the insurer who pays out has a legal responsibility to compensate both the NHS for any treatment you had, and the DWP for any benefits you might've claimed (I didn't do either but did get a free ride in an ambulance with a suspected fractured leg bone - that's the one connected to your knee bone).
This is a great thing and has cheered me up today. Means that everyone's hard payed tax money doesn't go into repairing the damage done by idiot drivers.
On the other side though - probably does push up insurance prices :'(
I told them the details of my accident and said I'd send them any paperwork so they can check if the other guy's company had actual fulfilled its obligations.
Oh and by the way - I was wearing full armoured textile jacket and trousers, sharp 5* helmet, leather armoured boots and gloves and high vis jacket. Still hurt like hell, but at least I'm here to bore you all with this story.
All the gear, all the time motherfoccers. :fish
*edit - typo on last line
I had an off that was a goddamn suped up, tinted windows, boy racer's fault - no broken bones. Turns out if you do win a personal injury claim then the insurer who pays out has a legal responsibility to compensate both the NHS for any treatment you had, and the DWP for any benefits you might've claimed (I didn't do either but did get a free ride in an ambulance with a suspected fractured leg bone - that's the one connected to your knee bone).
This is a great thing and has cheered me up today. Means that everyone's hard payed tax money doesn't go into repairing the damage done by idiot drivers.
On the other side though - probably does push up insurance prices :'(
I told them the details of my accident and said I'd send them any paperwork so they can check if the other guy's company had actual fulfilled its obligations.
Oh and by the way - I was wearing full armoured textile jacket and trousers, sharp 5* helmet, leather armoured boots and gloves and high vis jacket. Still hurt like hell, but at least I'm here to bore you all with this story.
All the gear, all the time motherfoccers. :fish
*edit - typo on last line
See you on the A3...