Fraud implicating professionals on the rise

City Of London police say that they are concerned that professionals such as doctors are being targeted by organized fraudsters who have latched onto the very lucrative business of insurance fraud, which has become a real problem in the last 5 years. Doctors are of course critical for a successful personal injury claim, since most of these turn on medical evidence and this is particularly the case for whiplash claims because whiplash is a soft tissue injury and difficult to disprove if backed by medical evidence.

As the problem has escalated so a specific department of the police, partially funded by insurers, the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) has been set up, although it is unclear whether this is sufficiently funded and therefore resourced to deal with a problem that frankly has got out of hand. When fraud becomes almost acceptable, in the eyes of the public, there is a real problem.  A much higher percentage of the public are now making personal injury claims, and frankly, this problem should have been addressed a while ago by both insurers and the Government, both of whom have known about it for some time.