DWF: ‘Evidence to Transport Select Committee – main themes’

Insurers, lawyers and claims management companies have set out their positions on the current whiplash debate before the Transport Select Committee. According to an Insurance Brief, ‘Evidence to Transport Select Committee – main themes’ from law firm DWF, views were polarise: insurers spoke of 7% of whiplash claims being known to be fraudulent, but that if exaggeration was included, the figure could be 60% or even more. The claimants saw the statistics as unreliable, suggested that they were in line with other major Western European states, and denied that the UK was ‘the whip-lash capital of Europe’.