Personal Injury Claims
Prince Philip has been in the news over the last few days after being involved in a car accident. His Land Rover collided with a Kia, flipping Prince Philip’s vehicle into a dangerous roll and the other vehicle into a tailspin which threw it off the road. While we await details of the police investigation, [...]
Over the years we have seen some major developments in the world of technology and mobile apps but the car insurance industry has on the whole failed to keep up. When applying for insurance cover you may be “penalised” as a newly qualified driver, see your premiums bumped up in the event of a one-off [...]
Despite the fact many of the motoring public, and the general public, have never been consulted it seems as though driverless cars are on their way. They are actually being tested on the roads of the UK at this moment in time with governments and politicians pushing for their immediate introduction – in order to [...]
Over the next few years we will see a massive increase in the number of self-driving electric vehicles on the road (also known as autonomous vehicles) and with it some headaches for car insurance companies. When you bear in mind we have already seen a significant increase in electric vehicles but nowhere near the same [...]
Car insurance has for many years been the most difficult market to police with regards to fraudulent personal injury claims. The government has introduced an array of new regulations which will reduce the expenses associated with injuries such as whiplash but it is difficult to eliminate all fraudulent claims. There is no doubt that fraudulent [...]
While the authorities have instigated a serious clampdown upon fraudulent personal injury claims they are still a big problem. There are certain types of claims, such as whiplash, which are often difficult to dispute and tend to be settled out of court to save costs. In many ways the hardest hit victims of fraudulent personal [...]
We can only estimate the number of people driving on UK roads without insurance but the Motor Insurers Bureau believes there are more than 1 million uninsured drivers in the UK. The issue has been further complicated by European freedom of movement regulations and confusion as to what kind of cover and license are required [...]
The likelihood is that the majority of us at some point in our lives will be involved in a car accident which could be a major or a minor prang. These situations can be highly emotional, many of us will not be thinking straight and we may end up saying things which we regret. There [...]
