Despite there being a fall in the number of vehicle accidents, fraudulent insurance claims of whiplash are costing every driver nearly £100.
It has been stated that thousands of whiplash promises are ending with the average car insurance policy surging by £90.
As outlined by a survey of GPs by the King’s Fund, the accident rate came down by 16% but yet a ‘whiplash epidemic’ over the UK is causing a massive £2billion a year trend.
The amount of claims has increased by 30% in the past three years, moving to 570,000 a year- or just one claim per minute.
Findings from the Insurance Fraud Bureau, state that a minimum of 30,000 whiplash claims are outright fraudulent and are costing £350 million a year. Insurers say a number of doctors and ambulance-chasing lawyers are ‘scamming the system’ and details demonstrates 47% of UK doctors think the claims method is problematic.
They are calling on the government to put into action new recommendations to tackle the culture; one that includes a better quality process for diagnosing, treating and dealing with whiplash insurance claims. One insurer declared the current system, as evident of the findings, is wide open to misuse and allows false claims to be made.
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