Despite there being a decrease in the number of vehicle accidents, false insurance claims of whiplash are costing every driver nearly £100.
It has been said that a large number of whiplash claims 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% and yet a ‘whiplash epidemic’ over the UK is causing a huge £2billion a year craze.
The amount of claims has increased by 30% in the past three years, jumping to 570,000 a year- or just one claim each minute.
Conclusions from the Insurance Fraud Bureau, declare that at least 30,000 whiplash claims are outright fraudulent and are costing £350 million a year. Insurers say some doctors and ambulance-chasing lawyers are ‘scamming the system’ and data implies that 47% of UK doctors think the claims system is flawed.
They are calling on the government to implement new recommendations to handle the culture; one which includes a more robust process for the diagnosis of, 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.
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