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Travellers scamming insurance

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    #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Time wrote: »
    The stats show that travellers disproportionately commit crime to a massive degree. Male travellers are 17 times more likely to go to prison and female travellers are 37 times more likely, so there really shouldn't be any surprise that a disproportionate number of fraudulent cases like this are committed by travellers.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/disproportionate-number-of-travellers-in-prison-population-1.3263524

    Nobody is surprised.


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    #33
    Atlantic Dawn
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    There needs to be a leaderboard of how much solicitors are making a year from the personal injury claims they 'select'.


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    #34
    NIMAN
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    There should be an insurance payout database, that everyone in the country can access.

    It should show your name, your injury, who you were claiming off, who your solicitor was, how much you got, how much the solicitor got, who the judge was etc.

    All info presented up front so there is nothing to hide.


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    #35
    holliehobbie
    Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭holliehobbie


    NIMAN wrote: »
    There should be an insurance payout database, that everyone in the country can access.

    It should show your name, your injury, who you were claiming off, who your solicitor was, how much you got, how much the solicitor got, who the judge was etc.

    All info presented up front so there is nothing to hide.
    But wouldn't that breach human rights or GDPR or something?


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    #36
    Time
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    JayZeus wrote: »
    Nobody is surprised.

    I was being as diplomatic as possible with my language ;)


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    #37
    katiek102010
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭katiek102010


    holliehobbie wrote: »
    But wouldn't that breach human rights or GDPR or something?

    Think we already agree to it with insurance. That's why we get a no claims certificate on an annual basis


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    #38
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,761 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    They want representation in the Dail and Seanad now. http://tippfm.com/podcasts/tipp-today-highlights-travellers-hoping-better-political-involvement/

    I'm confused. They want to be seen as equals and engage in mainstream society but want to be segregated from it at the same time.

    "Several things were discussed including a designated place for travellers in the Dail and Seanad.."

    Which one is it, lads?

    Tbf insurance fraud is a popular scam on a levels of society, facilitated by the legal profession, as we have already seen.


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    #39
    Jurgen The German
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Jurgen The German


    Time wrote: »
    The stats show that travellers disproportionately commit crime to a massive degree. Male travellers are 17 times more likely to go to prison and female travellers are 37 times more likely, so there really shouldn't be any surprise that a disproportionate number of fraudulent cases like this are committed by travellers.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/disproportionate-number-of-travellers-in-prison-population-1.3263524

    While what you are saying may be true, travelers are not the biggest issue insurance companies have, not by a long shot.


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    #40
    Boggles
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    There should be an insurance payout database, that everyone in the country can access.

    It should show your name, your injury, who you were claiming off, who your solicitor was, how much you got, how much the solicitor got, who the judge was etc.

    All info presented up front so there is nothing to hide.

    It's the insurance industry that refuses to publish the data.

    The only clarity we have is what goes to court or through the PIAB.

    The vast majority of claims and payouts are kept secret by the industry.

    But I agree we should have a full public database on claims and also non claims data.

    The industry will fight that with their last breath though.


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