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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: They will negotiate more on their legal fees than on the compensation payment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Ultimately they are only agreeing to withdraw it on the basis that their legal fees will be paid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does FBD operate in any other jurisdiction besides the Republic of Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does it have any sister organisations or bodies which would allow it to compare a claim in Ireland with one in France, Italy or the UK, and look at an absolute carbon copy of an accident and how the system deals with it and how much the payment is? Has FBD been able to look at that level of detail?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have spoken to solicitors involved in personal injury cases. They tell me the awards in court have gone down, not up. If the awards have gone down in court, why are the insurance premiums not coming down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am talking about the individual claims. I have sat down and gone through it with solicitors because I want to understand it. They are telling me the amounts that have been awarded in court for things like whiplash have gone down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: At all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: So the amounts have gone up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about the legal fees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that not per individual cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: When Mr. Cahalan says legal fees have gone up, what does he mean by that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Taxing Master.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that a case taken by a barrister or solicitor for their legal fees to the Taxing Master?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the insurance company go to the Taxing Master?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was the outcome of that case to set a benchmark where legal fees have gone up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the position now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: If there is a solicitor acting on behalf of someone who is taking a case against an insurance company, what details is such a solicitor required to provide to the insurance company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why have they gone up by 15%? I am fed up of all this discussion. No one is actually telling us what is the real position. We have been around this. FBD is a good company and great employers. We had a wide spectrum of people in this morning. I know from dealing with it myself that insurance costs are only going one way. We have solicitors and barristers telling us awards have come...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is fine. Does FBD publish data to show the number of claims in any one year has gone up? Mr. McMahon is basing that on the number of claims going up. The marts told us that average rates have gone up by about 20% in the past year. If the number of claims has increased would FBD be willing to publish that level of data, to show that the claims and legal fees FBD is incurring have...