Two months have elapsed since the deadline
set for responses to the Department for Transport’s Review
of the Motor Insurers Bureau’s Uninsured and Untraced Drivers Agreements.
A number of well informed respondents have warned
the DfT that the consultation process is fundamentally flawed and that it must be
widened to embrace the numerous defects in the Road Traffic Act 1988 because that
legislation is inextricably interconnected with the MIB Agreements. It has also been informed that both the RTA 1988
and the MIB Agreements fail to meet the minimum standards of compensatory
protection required by law under the European Motor Insurance Directives. The DfT has even been advised that one of its proposals, set out in Question 18, is unlawful.
The DfT has been provided with chapter and
verse, including a solution that is as straight forward and fair to all
concerned.
My information is that none of the respondents
have been contacted by the DfT, despite being invited to do so. One is left to wonder whether this consultation
is merely window dressing?
I am reminded of that proverb: none are so
blind as those who will not see.
Click here to access my detailed consultation response.
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