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Originally Posted by raspritz
I believe the USA is a bit more litigious than the UK.
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That's probably true, but the ambulance chasers over here are doing their best to close the gap!
And all it really does is end up costing us all more, by way of higher prices for certain things (basically anything where the provider/seller fears they may have to defend spurious law suits) as well as higher insurance premiums to cover all the dodgy claims made by said ambulance chasers on behalf of the scamming fraternity. It's been made far too easy over the years for people to claim for 'whiplash' injuries which can't easily be disproved medically, but which more or less guarantees them a minimum payout from even the tiniest of impacts. I've even heard of whiplash claims going in - and being approved - when there was NO VISIBLE DAMAGE to the vehicles. How the hell could anyone suffer whiplash from an impact so minor that it doesn't even damage the vehicle? But they're paying out nevertheless.
Go figure...
What any of that has to do with race licence forms, I'm not sure.
But it's just another thing that's impacting the ever-increasing cost of going racing. I'd really like to continue for a few more years yet, but the way costs are going, who knows? The cost of tyres has rocketed recently, as well as fuel, of course. And then, instead of looking for ways to ease the burden, we've got MSUK piling on more expense with ECGs, new rules forcing the replacement of perfectly serviceable extinguishers, higher licence fees, etc. And those are just the recent ones that spring to mind.
Do other sports legislate their amateur competitors to oblivion?