PIAB applicants (i.e., personal injury victims) should take the long view and consider themselves fortunate, currently.

Cassius Dio (58.21.4-5) records that, due to a credit crunch in 33 AD:-

Tiberius then modified his decision regarding loans and gave one hundred million sesterces to the treasury, with instructions that senators should lend this money for three years without interest to those who needed it. He also ordered that the most disreputable of those who were bringing accusations against others should all be put to death on a single day. (emphasis added)