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Transport Committee examines whiplash, referral fees and fraud - Editorial

23/01/12.Think fraud, think fees being paid for introductions and think, er, whiplash and some people might jokingly point to the House of Commons. But they are exactly three of the issues which have been examined in the recent follow up report on the cost of motor insurance by the House of Commons Transport Committee. [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmtran/1451/145102.htm]  There were a number of matters which the report considered and this article looks at three of them: whiplash injuries, referral fees and fraud.


Whiplash injuries

One of the matters it covered was whiplash claims and it said in particular that...

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