Claims Direct, the failed personal injury specialist that went into administrative receivership, is to live again.
Law firm Russell Jones & Walker bought the rights to operate the business and is r ...
Claims Direct, the failed personal injury specialist that went into administrative receivership, is to live again.
Law firm Russell Jones & Walker bought the rights to operate the business and is running the service from its Birmingham offices.
The deal covered the Claims Direct name, websites, telephone numbers and sophisticated claims handling IT system.
RJW will not take on Claims Direct's liabilities or outstanding claims and will run the business under the name New Claims Direct.
It will be run as a phone and internet-based operation offering accident victims a free service based on a no-win, no-fee agreement.
Managing partner Richard Langton said the firm aimed to keep the proportion of cases that fail to a tiny proportion of those it takes on.
"We would hope overall to keep it under 3% and ideally about 1% or 2%," he said.
The company was already receiving 100 cases a week from the existing website and phone numbers.
About six staff from the old Claims Direct operation had been re-employed to run its call centre.
