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I can only comment on what I see but we see significant numbers of S&G cases in our fraud departments and we defeat a heck of a lot of them, sometimes receiving cheques for our costs from S&G's office account. S&G are certainly not complicit in this and their handlers are generally the better ones, but they have been sold a duff book. They now handle many 'late claims' where claimants never reported an injury initially but later brought a claim- this very likely means the claim was 'farmed' i.e. captured by accident management companies persuading people to bring the a claim often years after the event, we have all had the calls. The problem with this is that claimants are told it is easy money by the AMC. When they start having to give statements, access to medical records, go to court etc they suddenly do not want to know. A wedge is often then driven between the claimant and the solicitor who the claimant thought was just there to get them a nice pay out but now is asking them to go to court and sign statements of truth that they were injured. S&G have exposure to this from their Quindell purchase, which is probably the basis of their announcement that from now on, they would only take claims under 12 months old. So with these, the outright fraudulent claims they picked up from Quindell (the claimants are the fraudsters, S&G or Quindell wouldn't have known I have to stress), and the deafness claims of which payment rate is miniscule, the Quindell purchase appeared unwise and this was obvious to me when it went through.
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