Fraudulent car insurance claims on the rise
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Insurance Daily reports that fraudulent car insurance claims are on the rise. This comes after research from LV= found that some people were trying to claim for whiplash and similar injuries, even though they were not in the vehicle involved in an accident in the first place!
Dodgy insurance claims on the rise
The number of dodgy insurance claims has increased significantly since the onset of the recession, pushing up the cost of insurance.
Research by LV= found around 40% of solicitors have experienced a rise in the number of spurious insurance claims.
Over half (52%) of the potentially fake claims involve car accidents.
Whiplash was the most commonly made up injury, followed by post-traumatic stress, and strained muscles.
One of the fake claims included someone making a car insurance claim even though they weren’t in the vehicle at the time of the alleged accident.
Another claimant said she had been run over by a bus when she had only fallen off the side of the curb.
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