And lashes out at lawyers for creating 'costs for themselves' in the claims process.
Road Accident Fund CEO Collins Letsoalo believes there might be systemic bias by judges against the fund.
“Why is this the case? We don’t know,” he said at a briefing on Thursday about a campaign to reduce the RAF backlog of 321 000 claims that are three years or older. He said lawyers “create costs for themselves” unless a judge orders them to pay something in their personal capacity.Mudslinging mars attorneys’ attempt to address RAF crisis“When we try to simplify it and say, ‘Make it a defined benefit so that we know if you are amputated from below the knee, this is how much you get, and all of us must get the same’, they don’t want that.
However, the High Court in Pretoria in March 2024 declared it unlawful and reviewed and set aside the board notice published in the Government Gazette in May 2022 and the RAF Form 1 prescribed by the minister of transport in terms of the RAF Act and published in a Board Notice in the Government Gazette in July 2022.
Letsoalo said the RAF has received 380 000 contacts via email and calls since the call centre opened and has resolved at least 95% of these cases.
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