Insurers of driver who badly injured Paralympic cycling champion Simon Richardson refuse to pay for operation

F'ing scumbags. Someone somewhere must know who his insurers are.

I can imagine him raising the money through a fundraising campaign, but simply naming the insurance company would achieve the results quicker. Reading Simon's twitter he obviously knows the insurance comany but won't name it. Reading between the lines I guess his lawyers have advised him not to. He says "just remember, he's a farmer" so I guess it could be NFU (National Farmers Union) but this is pure speculation. If they aren't the insurer in question I guess it would be in their interests to distance themselves from such speculation.

Identify the insurers and we can all ensure that we boycott them and not put any business their way, although most of these scumbags are the same. Happily take your money but don't even think of making a legitimate claim.

Funny that they insist on paying out for dubious whiplash claims so sending everyone's premiums up but where there is an obvious issue and a need for this medical claim to be settled they refuse on the grounds that it is fine for someone to be in pain for a year and it will get sorted at no cost to them.

What a joke the legal system is in our country.

Somebody must know who the insurers are. Or is there a reason they cannot be identified?

This is an appalling case. Leaving the victim of an accident in pain for 1-2 years until NHS treatment can be scheduled is not acceptable for anyone, paralymic cyclist or not. The fact that this athlete will probably miss the next paralympics as a result is even worse. The insurance company should be named and shamed.

If he cannot the get insurance company to pay - at the end of the day, he CAN get the op in the NHS free of charge, isn't that why we are fighting off the Tories? - can he sue the driver for loss of earnings and get the money that way? That driver screwed up his career!

Just asking the experts here. Anybody work in insurance?

So I presume that the berk's insurance company are refusing on the basis that the op will be completed by the NHS therefore there are no costs to pay, despite the expected 12-month wait. I certainly wouldn't accept being in pain for another year just because of someone else's actions.

1. Wouldn't be at all surprised for this to go viral/national media, at which point £36k is going to seem a small amount of cash to avoid the sh*tstorm of negative PR that is coming their way.

2. If that doesn't work, I reckon £36k will be easily surpassed in donations if needs be.

Good luck Simon.

Wow, what scumbags, don't let them get away with this, they are duty bound surely, shame them and they will cave in.

This is appalling, insurers putting the boot in.