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As a solicitor specialising in road accident claims, I act for many taxi drivers.

Regrettably, allegations of fraud in accidents involving taxis are very frequent.

At a recent hearing in the Birmingham County Court, four claimants sued a driver for injuries supposedly suffered in a road accident but the court found that two of them were not in the vehicle at the time. It is not clear whether a taxi was involved.

As the two genuinely injured claimants had gone along with the fraud, their claims were wholly disallowed as well!

Consequently, we would recommend that taxi drivers always keep cameras in their vehicles and as well as taking photographs of the scene of the accident, they should take photographs of themselves and (with their agreement) any passengers so that their involvement can be established more easily.

Were they subsequently charged with 'perverting the course of justice'?

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As the summary related only to a civil claim in the County Court, it is not known whether any criminal charges followed but this is quite likely.

Then I would guess not getting their claim paid out is the least of their worries.

But the camera idea is a sound one. Thank goodness for mobile phones with cameras/videos.

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It has however just been reported that three people in Yorkshire have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to defraud insurance companies arising out of a so called "Crash for Cash" scam.

I know plenty of cab drivers who are were involved in fraudulent claims. I suppose you might know some of the same cab drivers to which I refer? The system lends itself to corruption and when it comes to fraudulent claims taxi drivers are no saints. Neither are solicitors and I suspect you know that too?

I'm in complete agreement with you about cameras but when a cab driver gets a little shunt up the backside then the camera is conveniently turned off. That's when solicitors kick into overdrive and pursue bogus claims from cab drivers who are not injured but nonetheless act as though they are injured and solicitors say go to this consultant he will sort you out. We all know the rest because we have all been there.

Sound familiar to you? of course it does.

Regards

John Davies

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I can name you countless Taxi drivers who have defrauded insurance companies, assisted by solicitors. I suppose you can't?

Regards

JD

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Do we need any more evidence about corrupt solicitors?

Law firms that grew rich by exploiting sick miners are to be forced to repay tens of millions of pounds that they wrongly sliced from their clients’ compensation.

The multimillion-pound payback follows an investigation by The Times into a series of abuses linked to the Department of Trade and Industry’s £7.5 billion coal health compensation scheme.

An estimated 75,000 former pit workers are likely to receive payments under a nationwide scheme that has been agreed in principle by the Government.

The cost to those solicitors who improperly deducted money from awards given to elderly and vulnerable clients may top £50 million.
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Claims were registered by more than 760,000 former miners with chronic lung disease or a crippling hand condition caused by their work underground.

Solicitors handling each claim were paid a fixed fee by the Government, but many chose to make additional deductions from the compensation awarded to their clients.

The money they sliced off was sometimes banked by the law firms themselves and in other cases was passed to miners’ unions or claims handling companies.

Some solicitors’ firms earned significant profits by bulk-processing tens of thousands of claims. Two, Thompsons and Beresfords, have earned fees totalling £131 million and £123 million respectively.

When the final claim is settled, solicitors will have been paid a total of £1.3 billion, yet tens of thousands of their clients – or their widows – received less than £1,000 each. The lowest award was 50p

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