Hospitals now selling compensation claims leads ?
An MP has claimed that his constituents have contacted him complaining of being harangued by personal injury compensation firms after receiving hospital treatment in the areas around the Wirral and Liverpool, and making the assumption that details of their hospital stay and reasons for it are being leaked. These claims have been denied by relevant hospitals.
A spokesman for the Royal Liverpool said the allegations were “completely false”.
Data suggests that spam text messages have now reached the level of nearly 12.75 million a month and this is likely to represent breach of data protection on a massive scale, since consent is required before data can be passed on, and even then, consent may be given for information to be passed to certain sectors but not others. Obviously, the figure of over 12 million does not relate to injury claims, but this is a big problem, not least for credibility of lawyers generally and personal injury lawyers specifically. Clearly, if staff in hospitals are found to be selling data, this is bad news in all respects.
