This week in Post: Tricks and treats

This week, some Post colleagues and I went to a Halloween party dressed as whiplash victims. The joke was lost on other attendees, whose business was mainly commercial lines, and we ended up reassuring walking vegetables, bloody nurses and train engines that yes, we were fine. The only sick thing about us was our sense of humour.

The genuine concern of the costumed revellers when they saw our neck braces made me reflect. Insurers probably care about whiplash victims as much as personal injury lawyers do. Could the delay in the