LV Insurance share some of the fraudulent and less than honest personal injury claims that land in their in-tray.
In one claim, a woman tried to make a fraudulent claim, after she attended a screening of The Life of PI and was made to allegedly ‘jumped back in her seat’ in a scene where a tiger hurtles from the water in the 3D epic.
The woman subsequently went on to claim £1,000 costs for cancelling her holiday, claiming that she was unable to travel, because she suffered the alleged whiplash injury at the cinema.
Fortunately, good sense prevailed and her claim was considered outrageous and was not paid out.
In another blatant bogus whiplash claim, a woman applied for a £3,000 compensation pay out for injuries suffered in a car accident. However, the claim failed to succeed when it was discovered that the woman was actually in hospital giving birth when the alleged accident took place.
Further examples of less than honest claims being made include a professional boxer - who after making a £10,000 personal injury claim for an alleged injury in a car accident and appealed that his doctor warned that he would be out of action for months - was later discovered online winning a boxing match, six weeks after the alleged accident.
More astonishing evidence of fraudulent - and less than well thought out compensation claims - involved a woman who was claiming £2,500 for injuries allegedly suffered by herself and her daughter in a car accident. The claim was rejected after shared with a friend on Facebook, her relief that her daughter wasn’t in the car at time of the accident.
John O’Roarke, managing director of LV car insurance said, “Fraud has been seen as a ‘victimless’ crime for far too long but the reality is that it drives up premiums for honest motorists.”
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