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Anon 12.22 said 'Defendants have plenty of reason to lie and it is a financial gain for an insurer if it can make a claim go away by raising the Claimant's risk so high that proceeding is not financially sound.'

Yes but the defendant is the driver not the insurer (a point that is almost alwasy forgotten), so what I am struggling with is, why would a defendant collude with their insurers, where is the finanical motivation for the,? Why would they care if their insurers escaped costs or not? In my lengthy experience only a small percenatge of cases that the insurers want to run end up going to trial because the driver, their customer, cannot be bothered going to Court (and in some cases particularly with older people the thought terrifies them). Certainly there is a percentage of drivers so sure of their own virtue I have seen them argue with the judge (as I'm sure most of us in this sector have) but this is certainly the minority. Maybe others are better than me at persuading their customers / clients to go to Court but I haven't seen any evidence

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