Learning outcomes
Delegates will have an understanding of current issues relating to credit hire and the knowledge gained will increase decision making skills when a credit hire claim is to be included with a claim.
Content
A whistle stop tour of recent credit hire decisions and tips and tricks that will bring about a speedier settlement.
Presented by Craig Budsworth, this session will cover:
- Taxi claims and the requirements to prove recoverability
- Basic Hire Rate, what can influence the rate
- Impecuniousity evidence
- Settlement tactics
- Intervention
- Future of the Genereal Terms Agreement, what might we see
Craig Budsworth was born in Radcliffe near Manchester.
Craig qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive in the UK in 2007 and has been involved in insurance and finance since leaving school at 16. He started his career with NatWest and moved to Direct Line in 1993 learning the insurance side of road accidents and insurance claims before moving to the claimant side by joining Glaisyers Solicitors in 1998. He became one of the first Legal Executive partners in 2009 and since leaving Glaisyers in 2013, spent over a decade at AX, one of the country’s leading credit hire firms, before additionally qualifying as a masters level leadership coach. He now provides consultancy services to law firms and hire firms, as well as delivering leadership coaching and training to multiple industries.
Contributing to developments in the law is at Craig’s heart and he joined the Civil Justice Council in 2012. That same year Craig took over as Chairman of MASS. In recognition of his contributions, he was recognised as an individual who has given outstanding service to CILEx or the Legal Community and who represents CILEx’s values and ethos by being awarded the CILEx President’s Medal.... view full biography