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I’m not insurance man, and I don’t agree with his gloating. However, I have worked with large insurers. From what I’ve seen, they’ve invested heavily (along with the police & IFB) in identifying and preventing fraud – far more than any donations they’ve made to the Tory bunch. RTC/PI solicitors and firms I have worked with, on the other hand, seem to have made no efforts or advances in the same area.

Taking a step back, on one hand you have insurers fighting fraudsters and clearly getting results, as often reported, with many fraud rings being involved in millions of pounds worth of claims. On the other hand, you have solicitors, helping these fraudsters get these claims through and taking a slice of the pie for their efforts.

If you don’t work in the industry, who looks better and who would you listen to?

Had the IFB, ABI, Law Society etc worked together, I’m confident this could have been prevented. But facts are that solicitors seemed to do little to nothing to even properly investigate the problem. If you want to contest the alleged scale of the problem, finding on article from the ONS website saying overall claims are going down, or suggesting it is not a problem because some other countries are worse is poor if not pitiful.

Yes, we can make wild claims that a donation from an insurer (equating to less than ¼ of a % of overall donations that year) to a political party has made the “government in the hands of their insurance paymasters”, but come on, that sounds like paranoid tripe.

But let us wash our hands of any responsibility and claim we’re victims of mean insurers and politicians.