{"id":1852,"date":"2017-07-10T23:16:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/bci-crackdown-on-fake-holiday-sickness-claims\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:16:51","slug":"bci-crackdown-on-fake-holiday-sickness-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/07\/10\/bci-crackdown-on-fake-holiday-sickness-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"BCI: Crackdown on fake holiday sickness claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plans to clamp down on bogus holiday sickness claims have been announced by the UK\u2019s\u00a0Ministry of Justice<\/a> following concerns from the travel industry that more and more suspected false insurance claims for gastric illnesses like food poisoning are being brought by British holidaymakers.<\/p>\n

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Advice from the travel industry shows the upsurge of claims in this country \u2013 reported by the industry to be as high as 500% since 2013 \u2013 is not seen in other European countries, raising suspicions over the scale of bogus claims and damaging our reputation overseas.<\/p>\n

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Due to the reported increase in claims, and as many tour operators appear to settle them out of court, the costs to the industry are increasing. In addition to the high costs of settling these claims, the bogus complaints are also damaging to the reputations of those tour operators involved.<\/p>\n

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A major barrier to tackling the issue is that these spurious claims are arising abroad. Legal costs are not controlled, so costs for tour operators who fight claims can be out of all proportion to the damages claimed.<\/p>\n

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Ministers today said they want to reduce cash incentives to bring spurious claims against package holiday tour operators. Under these proposals tour operators would pay a prescribed sum depending on the value of the claim, making the cost of defending a claim predictable.<\/p>\n

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Justice Secretary David Lidington said: \u201cOur message to those who make false holiday sickness claims is clear \u2013 your actions are damaging and will not be tolerated. We are addressing this issue, and will continue to explore further steps we can take. This government is absolutely determined to tackle the compensation culture which has penalised the honest majority for too long.”<\/p>\n

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The Business Continuity Institute Plans to clamp down on bogus holiday sickness claims have been announced by the UK\u2019s\u00a0Ministry of Justice following concerns from the travel industry that more and more suspected false insurance claims for gastric illnesses like food poisoning are being brought by British holidaymakers. Advice from the travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}