More than £15 million in personal injury compensation has been claimed over the past five years by prisoners in UK jails, according to information obtained following Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. The numbers of compensation claims instigated against the prison authorities has also been rising, the numbers of claims nearly doubling since 2005. And according to the latest figures the number of compensation claims made by prisoners is set to escalate even more in the next few years. Prisoners can legally make a claim for compensation. If the prison authorities fail in ...
Insurers are detecting more fraudulent insurance claims than ever before according to figures released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The ABI says that last year more than 2,000 dishonest insurance claims worth more than £16 million were detected every week, with many claims coming from bogus personal injury compensation claims. Nick Starling, the ABI’s Director of General Insurance and Health, says: “Reducing fraud remains an ongoing battle for the insurance industry. Our honest customers rightly object to having to pay higher premiums to subsidise the fraudulent ...
Pressure is mounting on domestic violence abusers to stop their actions towards spouses and children with the announcement of a new Government programme. One of the new Government’s policies is that, whenever possible, offenders should contribute to victims’ services and programmes tackling abuse as part of their reparation. The plan is to use proceeds from the Victim Surcharge to deliver up to 15 new rape crisis centres, and give existing rape crisis centres more stable, long-term funding. The Victims Surcharge system currently raises money to support victims of crime and witnesses from offenders ...
Two members of a criminal tax fraud gang have been ordered to pay a record £92.3 million to HM Revenue & Customs in what is the biggest ever compensation confiscation order secured by the tax office. The gang were involved in fraud on a staggering scale and bought luxury houses in London, high performance cars and built blocks of flats in Dubai after stealing £37.5 million in a ‘missing trader’ VAT tax fraud. Some of the money they stole is believed to have been invested in a third ...
An experimental British Crime Survey (BCS) focusing on children’s experiences of crime shows a staggering number of criminal injuries being committed in Britain against children, with more than two million criminal incidents affecting youngsters last year. The new Government criminal statistics survey asked UK youngsters questions about their experiences as victims of violence and theft for the year ending December 2009 although the questions did not cover issues such as parental abuse, domestic violence, sex offences or drugs. In total 2.1 million children were affected ...
