Consultation outcome

Legal Ombudsman and complaints about claims management companies - consultation on the fees framework

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 7 May 2014
• Last updated: 5 November 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

The Legal Ombudsman and complaints about claims management companies: response to consultation

PDF, 127 KB, 21 pages

Impact assessment: recovering the costs the Lord Chancellor will incur in meeting the costs of the Legal Ombudsman

PDF, 65 KB, 13 pages

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Detail of outcome

This is the government response following the consultation paper “The Legal Ombudsman and complaints about claims management companies” which was published on 7 May.

We have carefully considered all responses to the consultation. The overall response was mixed. However, as no unforeseen issues with the proposed fee framework or no new evidence or arguments on the impact of the fees was raised, we have decided to proceed with the fee framework as set out in the consultation paper.

As the timetable for the implementation of the Legal Ombudsman taking complaints about claims management companies has been slightly revised, revised fees have been calculated, and these are set out in Annex B of the response.

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Original consultation

Summary

Proposals as to how the Legal Ombudsman may recover costs over complaints about claims management companies

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
12:30pm on 7 May 2014 to 11:59pm on 5 June 2014

Consultation description

In August 2012 the government announced its intention for customers’ complaints about poor service provided by authorised claims management companies (CMCs) to be dealt with by the Legal Ombudsman. The Legal Ombudsman will provide a new avenue of redress for clients of claims management companies and will assist the Claims Management Regulator in driving out poor standards and practices in the market.

Once the Legal Ombudsman’s jurisdiction is extended to cover the authorised claims management industry, all authorised CMCs will automatically be covered by the scheme and will have certain obligations towards it.

This paper sets out for consultation proposals as to how the costs the Legal Ombudsman will incur in dealing with complaints about authorised CMCs may be recovered from the authorised claims management industry.

The consultation is aimed at persons authorised to provide claims management services in England and Wales under the Compensation Act 2006 and those CMCs and individuals considering making an application for authorisation.

Published 7 May 2014
Last updated 5 November 2014 + show all updates

1. 5 November 2014

   Impact assessment added.

2. 3 November 2014

   Consultation response added

3. 7 May 2014

   First published.