Posters are certainly right about the compensation culture spreading to UK. In fact its probbably worse here than in the US because US judges have decades of expereince at spotting legal scams wheras the ambulance chasers area relatively new phenomenum here in Britain.
The problem is lawyers cost more than they are really worth and therefore joe publ;ic finds it prohibitivley expensive and a risk to use a 'reputable' firm because if he loses he can lose his house and go bankrupt , the no win no fee route avoids this but ribs clients blind on fees .
the other fix is to up the fixed compensation level to say 250K per pax becaus e 100k isnt really enough these days . If 250K isnt enough for you then you probably have the resources to hire layers yourself but at the moment the low compensation level puts victims between the deep blue sea of the risk of losing and the devil in the form of the sharks