Whiplash

News Analysis: Party conference season approaches

With the Green Party positioning itself as the ‘real opposition’ to the coalition government, reality TV star ‘White Dee’ Deidre Kelly set to speak at the Conservative Party Conference alongside David Cameron and the furore surrounding the ‘Yes’ vote…

Blog: Striking out fraudulent claims

Dan Screene, senior associate, Hogan Lovells Insurance Practice takes a look at how efforts to disincentivise the fraudulent exaggeration of insurance claims are working

Video: Claims edition – Whiplash

The UK has been described as the whiplash capital of Europe and Association of British Insurers figures state that 78% of low-value motor personal injury claims in the UK are for whiplash – well above the 48% recorded across the rest of Europe

Insurers critical of TSC medical report proposal

The industry has slammed a Transport Select Committee proposal to prohibit personal injury claims being settled without a medical report with one insurer calling the suggestion “out of touch”.

TSC endorses proposed pre-med whiplash offer ban

The Transport Select Committee has thrown its support behind government moves to prohibit insurers from settling whiplash claims without a medical, as part of a report on fraudulent and exaggerated motor claims.

Editor's comment: What's under the wrapping paper?

Surprises for the insurance industry usually come in the form of floods, fires and windstorms, so it must have been a welcome change for the sector this weekend when Justice Secretary Chris Grayling handed them a more pleasant gift by stepping up the…

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