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20 Jan 2012 - Air bag DNA convicts
car insurance fraudster
When Mr M, a 41 year
old teacher from Worcestershire, crashed his car after a night out
drinking he decided to report his car as stolen. However, his car
insurance provider, Hastings Direct, found no evidence of theft-related
damage to the car although there was extensive accident damage. Their
team of former police officers was called in to investigate for
possible fraud...
16 Jan 2012 - BIBA's
response to Transport Committee Report: ‘Cost of Motor Insurance:
follow up’
The British Insurance
Brokers' Association (BIBA) has responded, largely favourably, to the
Transport Select Committee's latest report on the cost of motor
insurance, the findings of which, along with our own response to it, we
reported recently in our news item: Transport Committee Report on Cost
of Motor Insurance...
13 Jan 2012 - GPs report increased injury
fraudsters
Research from
insurance provider Liverpool Victoria (LV=) has found that, over the
last two years, 60% of GPs have experienced an increase in the numbers
of patients that they perceive to be faking or exaggerating injuries in
order to make a fraudulent car insurance claim. Eighty-seven per cent
of the 250 family doctors surveyed said that...
12 Jan 2012 - Transport Committee
Report on Cost of Motor Insurance
The soaring cost of
car insurance, especially for young drivers, and the growing public
awareness of dysfunctional and costly practices within the insurance
and claims industry have adversely effected and angered the public who
are increasingly looking to their political representatives to
intervene to bring back value for money and fairness to the pricing of
their car insurance premiums...
11 Jan 2012 - Storm-damaged cars send
car insurance claims soaring
The AA has said that
as a result of vehicle damage caused by the recent storms, car
insurance claims over the first five days of January soared by 28%.
This amounted to 5,600 claims across the country that were due to
storm-related vehicle damage. In Scotland, where gusts of over 90mph
were reported, claims rose by 65%...
15 Dec 2011 - OFT to review car repair
/ hire costs in car insurance
There are many causes
of the rising cost of UK car insurance as presented in a recent report:
The Price of Car Insurance in 2012 - The CIUKS Report. To quickly see
the eighteen most significant causes, that include those causes that
the OFT proposes to investigate, there is a summary box of them in this
section of the report...
08 Dec 2011 - Many motorists
unprepared for winter conditions
Although compared to
last year at this time when 42% had done nothing to prepare for winter
motoring there has been a slight improvement given that this year's
figure is 38%, it remains the case that many drivers remain
ill-prepared for the extreme weather conditions ahead. That's according
to the lastest poll of 18,000 drivers conducted by the AA...
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