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Fraudulent whiplash compensation claims
are pain in the neck for insurance companies
Fraudulent whiplash compensation claims cost the insurance industry almost £125m every year. It is has been proposed that research into accurate diagnosis could help insurers win the battle against fraudulent claims.
Motion Analysis Research and Rehabilitation Centre at Worcester University need funding to conduct a project which aims to map muscles used in everyday movement. This could make whiplash diagnosis easier and provide a good basis against which to detect fake whiplash injury claims.
PR manager for Ecclesiastical Insurance says this about the project: ‘The value of this motion analysis is that it has the potential to introduce proper scientific measurement into an area ruled by opinions and arguments. As well as being used to detect fraudulent whiplash claims, it could be used in the workplace to pinpoint which muscles are under strain, and help lead to healthier working conditions and less personal injury compensation claims overall.’
Although the research is looking to cost in the region of £500, 000 it is thought that the number of spurious whiplash compensation claims that will be detected following the project could save the industry millions.
However, there has been some concern that past methods to reduce fraudulent claims have been costly to the industry such as delaying payment to genuine claimants. Also, there is a fundamental need to make sure that any strategy used is fairly inconspicuous to prevent further inconvenience to genuine whiplash injury sufferers.