I suspect that the longer-term result will be that the junior staff who form the insurance companies' first lines of defence to personal injury claims will add this to their repertoire. Cases involving traffic collisions getting as far as court are more likely to be dealt with on their merits but - and this is the depressing bit - the case demonstrates prevalent attitudes among many influential people.
* From wiki:
ie nothing to do with personal injury.The Chancery Division deals with business law, trusts law, probate law, and land law in relation to issues of equity. It has specialist courts (the Patents Court and the Companies Court) which deal with intellectual property and company law matters respectively. All tax appeals are assigned to the Chancery Division.