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‘£93 extra’ for car insurance due to whiplash claims

March 23, 2015Mark SkipseyInsurance News

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Whiplash claims have hit record levels and are adding £93 to the average motor insurance premium, a report from a major insurer has warned. The spike in claims has been driven by no-win no-fee law firms which advertise widely on daytime television and use cold calls to crash victims to drum up business.

Insurer Aviva has said that despite the Government’s efforts to tackle the compensation culture and bring down motor insurance costs, further reforms are needed to reduce the number and cost of whiplash claims.

In total, whiplash claims are costing motorists £2.5bn a year, it said. Its research found that the UK is on track to bring more than 840,000 motor injury claims to the Claims Portal, which allows insurers to submit claims, for the year ending April 2015. This equates to 2,300 claims every day, showing a 9 per cent rise on the previous year.

Aviva analysed the motor injury claims it received in 2014 and found that 80pc included whiplash.

The average UK motor insurance premium is £372, but in France, where whiplash claims only make up 3 per cent of motor injury claims, premiums are around 40 per cent less than they are in the UK, it said.

Source article at The Telegraph.

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