Seventy-five per cent of healthcare professionals believe that the way in which whiplash claims are evaluated and paid is open to corruption, reports the Law Gazette. In a survey conducted by three leading insurers and rehabilitation provider HCML, 90% of the respondents believe that whiplash claim... [More]

The outcry over the rising cost of car insurance may be abating after UK prices over the last quarter were shown to have either dropped or stablised.From July to September, according to AA data, the average price of fully comprehensive cover for a 12 month period dropped by 0.3%. Although in practic... [More]

While it seems that personal injury claims are a relatively new legal development, a new blog in the Guardian, compiling results of a piece of research from insurer Aviva, demonstrates that claims for mishaps and accidental injury are nothing new: In 1878, a Lancashire grocer was awarded the modern... [More]

Residents of Cambridge make more personal injury claims than those in any other city, a survey has revealed. A poll of 3,000 people by a leading claims management company revealed that the historic city notches up more claims than its nearest rivals, Aberystwyth in Wales and Coventry. Implying it ... [More]

This week, representatives of the UK insurance industry trooped to the House of Commons to tell the Transport Select Committee that the price of their product cannot be expected to continue to escalate without something being done about it. The cost of the average motor insurance premium has risen ... [More]