Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "
I also don't understand this business about personal injury claims "going through the roof". I do understand very well that the insurers detect that they have their chums in the Tory government well on-side at the moment, and are filling their mercenary boots, but the (rather obvious) point is that it doesn't matter how many claims are MADE, the question is how many are PAID. If a claim is valid, then pay it, if there are lots that you pay, then stop whinging - you're an insurance company so that's what you're for.
If any given claim is NOT valid - then DON'T PAY IT!! But the rather clever tactic is currently to claim they've paid all these claims but which should never have been paid in the first place. Which is both utterly disingenuous, and as close to bollox as makes no difference.
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Thats long been my argument - you can't have a fraudulent claim if you've paid out on it, not unless you are willing to admit to all and sundry (including all of your shareholders and investors) that you just hand out the money without checking the facts first.
If its fraud, don't pay it, if you think it might be fraud, delay and investigate it, if you think its genuine then pay it - pretty funkin simple really.
Its very similar to the bleats you get on various RLFans sites about the number of forward passes in xxx game over the weekend - its not a forward pass if the referee doesn't give it - it might be forward in your opinion, but you just don't count, not one iota.
