Despite there being a decrease in the number of vehicle accidents, fake insurance claims of whiplash are costing every driver nearly £100.
It’s been revealed that a large number of whiplash promises are resulting in the average car insurance policy rising by £90.
Based on a survey of GPs by the King’s Fund, the accident rate has dropped by 16% but yet a ‘whiplash epidemic’ across the UK is resulting in a substantial £2billion a year craze.
The amount of claims has increased by 30% previously three years, moving to 570,000 a year- or just one claim per minute.
Results from the Insurance Fraud Bureau, declare that at least 30,000 whiplash claims are outright fraudulent and are charging £350 million a year. Insurers say some doctors and ambulance-chasing lawyers are ‘scamming the system’ and details shows that 47% of UK doctors think the claims system is flawed.
They’re calling on the government to put into action new guidelines to deal with the culture; one that includes a more robust process for diagnosing, treating and dealing with whiplash insurance claims. One insurer said that the current system, as apparent of the findings, is wide open to abuse and allows false claims to be made.
There are over 1,600 whiplash diagnoses a day, so get professional insurance claims advice with specialist loss assessors.
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