You’ve been warned! – changes to statements of truth bolster the fight against fraud By Catherine Burt, Claire Laver On the 6 th April 2020 the 113th update to the Practice Directions (PD) within the Civil Procedure…
DAC Beachcroft Snap into Action and Find Claimant Fundamentally Dishonest By Claire Laver, DAC Beachcroft’s casualty fraud team has secured another Fundamental Dishonesty finding against a…
Claimant’s fundamental dishonesty leads to his claim becoming unstuck at Trial! By Claire Laver, Further success for DAC Beachcroft’s Casualty Fraud Team after they secured another finding of…
Fabricated care invoices lead to fundamental dishonesty finding in forklift truck claim By Claire Laver, David Williams, Jennifer Brown The impact of the dishonest exaggeration of heads of loss on the whole of a claim has been the…
DAC Beachcroft success as Court strikes out 'fraudulent' claim as an abuse of process at interlocutory hearing By Claire Laver, DAC Beachcroft’s Casualty Fraud Team has secured an interlocutory strike out of a claimant’s claim…
Employers Liability claimant convicted for fraud By Claire Laver A serial claimant in an Employer’s Liability action eventually pleaded guilty to two counts of…
Dishonest Driving Instructor Learns the Harsh Letters of the Law By Neville Sampson, Catherine Burt, Claire Laver Mr Jafar Kazemi v Mrs Jayantilal Gohil This case was defended as a low speed impact in which DACB…
Should product liability claims fall within the low value protocol? By Claire Laver The Jackson Reforms of 2013 saw the extension of the Low Value Protocols into public liability and…
DACB secures major Court of Appeal decision clarifying 50 year old Exemplary Damages law By Claire Laver The Court of Appeal has today clarified a 50 year old law as to when exemplary damages can be…
When should surveillance evidence be served? By Catherine Burt, Claire Laver, David Williams The question of when a Defendant should serve surveillance evidence is often important in seeking…
Staircase accident falls away over fundamentally dishonest evidence By Claire Laver, David Williams Where a Court makes a finding of fact that the Claimant's pleaded claim is based on incorrect…
Travel Claims Protocol April 2018 By David Williams, Claire Laver, Jasminka O'Hora Following the creation of the new Pre-Action Protocol for Package Travel Claims, the fixed costs…
Beauticians, Behaviours and Bogus Claims By Claire Laver, David Williams The proportion of claims handled by DAC Beachcroft Claims Limited involving allegations of…
DAC Beachcroft secures 10th Casualty Fundamental Dishonesty Finding By Claire Laver Last week our casualty counter fraud team secured a successful outcome in which a judge made a…
London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games v Sinfield By David Williams, Claire Laver, Catherine Burt When is an exaggerated claim so exaggerated as to be fundamentally dishonest, resulting in its…
Section 57 | The Expansion of Fundamental Dishonesty in Personal Injury Claims By Catherine Burt, Anthony Carrington, Claire Laver The phrase "Fundamental Dishonesty" is now well known to defendant insurers in respect of personal…
