Taxi drivers to claim against state

HUNDREDS of taxi drivers are lodging claims against the State over its decision to de-regulate the industry.

A Limerick-based firm of solicitors, which has made €8m out of the army deafness cases, has signed up over 300 drivers so far.

If the cases are successful it could cost the State millions of euro and well in excess of the €15m hardship fund it announced this week for drivers hit hardest by deregulation.