Calls for a fund of last resort to compensate injured and dying workers have intensified after a new report has shown chronic failings in the current system.

Figures show the Association of British Insurers’ current voluntary scheme for tracing former employers’ insurance policies is still failing to help many sick and injured workers, leaving them nowhere to turn for the compensation to which they are entitled and desperately need. The figures show that less than half of the attempts totrace insurance details are successful.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said that after ten years of failings, it is time to finally draw a line under the ABI’s scheme, and set up an Employers Liability Insurance Bureau (ELIB).

A spokesperson for APIL said “It is clear that, despite efforts to improve the system, people are still falling through the net. Many of these people are seriously injured and many are dying without compensation. All are in this position because they were injured by their employers, it is absolutely reprehensible that many of them are left without compensation because they are unable to trace the necessary documents to make a claim.

“The need for an ELIB has never been more urgent. Year after year we have seen the ABI’s voluntary tracing code fail. Something else must now, surely, be put in place. In July 2009 , the Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, said he would look into the support given to individuals who are unable to trace employers’ insurance records.

At McHale and Co we have vast amounts of experience of tracing negligent employers to earn the compensation for injured employees. Compenation that they deserve.