Backlash Against Compensation Culture
In the United Kingdom there has been both a legislature and a judicial push back against "compensation culture." The Compensation Act 2006 provides a number of statutory factors to reduce the perception that there should be an implicit right to compensation against somebody in the event of an accident. A number of judicial decisions in the United Kingdom have also moved towards an "accidents sometimes just happen" approach. In Poppleton v Trustees of The Portsmouth Youth Activities Committee EWCA Civ 646 the Court of Appeal struck down a damages claim against the hosts of a party where the applicant fell off a climbing wall, rendering him quadriplegic.
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