Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion

Ms Linda Murray:

We have spoken a good bit about the Court of Appeal, the High Court, etc., but I wish our cases got to court. We are being put out of business because of the settling culture and the costs surrounding that. I spoke to a loss adjuster a couple of weeks ago about my insurance contract coming up for renewal next month and she said there was a simple answer. I should settle an outstanding case now and I would then have a chance of getting insurance. I said that it was a highly exaggerated and possibly fraudulent claim and it would not have been right to settle it. All I would do by settling it would be to let the cycle continue. We had to fight it.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.