Claim nation: 'Everyone else was making money out of what had happened to me'

One Cork woman tells of her "hideously stressful" three-year struggle to get compensation from a car accident which in the end she found was “deeply unsatisfactory”.

Behind each claim is a person who has to go through the same process to settle it. It isn’t an easy thing to do. File photo

In 2019, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB), Ireland’s State body with responsibility for arbitrating on compensation for injuries suffered, ruled on awards for just over 11,500 claims worth some €275 million.

Behind each of those claims is a person - some of whom have been grievously injured, some hardly injured at all. But all have to go through the same process to settle their claim. It isn’t an easy thing to do.