Definitions for compensation culture
com·pen·sa·tion cul·ture

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1. compensation culturenoun

   A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for one's own or others' mistakes.

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1. Compensation culture

   "Compensation culture" (often shortened to "compo culture") is a pejorative term used to imply that, within a society, a significant number of claims for compensation for torts are unjustified, frivolous, or fraudulent, and that those who seek compensation should be criticised. It is used to describe a "where there's blame, there's a claim" culture of litigiousness in which compensation is routinely and improperly sought without being based on the application of legal principles such as duty of care, negligence, or causation. Ronald Walker QC defines it as "an ethos [which believes that] all misfortunes short of an Act of God are probably someone else's fault, and that the suffering should be relieved, or at any rate marked, by the receipt of a sum of money."The notion of a compensation culture has also been conflated with health and safety legislation and excessively risk-averse decisions taken by corporate bodies in an apparent effort to avoid the threat of litigation.The phrase was coined in an article by Bernard Levin in London's The Times newspaper dated 17 December 1993. The article, largely a polemic against the welfare state, carried the sub-heading: "We may laugh at ludicrous court cases in America, but the compensation culture began in Britain and is costing us dear."

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1. Compensation culture

   "Compensation culture" describes a society in which it is acceptable for anyone who has suffered a personal injury to seek compensatory damages through litigation from someone connected with the injury. The term is especially used to describe the legal climate with regard to torts in Britain and Ireland by advocates of tort reform. Tort reformers criticize legal systems they deem to represent a "compensation culture" as resulting in: ⁕Frivolous lawsuits that may be settled out-of-court if the cost of defending a case is greater than the settlement amount. ⁕Liability insurance becoming prohibitively expensive where there is a high risk of compensation claims, making it impossible to host mildly dangerous activities such as children's sports or other public or community events. ⁕Lawyers who offer to take cases on a "No win, no fee" basis may encourage the misleading belief that such cases are risk-free, when in fact the defendant's legal costs may be awarded against the plaintiff. ⁕It may be difficult to disprove the existence of certain claimed injuries, such as neck and back strains, other soft tissue injury, or emotional distress, increasing the likelihood of perjury by plaintiffs feigning such injuries.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of compensation culture in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of compensation culture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

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