Civil Fraud

Overview

For over a decade, our team of specialist barristers have been instructed by leading solicitors and insurers to defend against claims involving suspected personal injury insurance fraud.

Whilst motor insurance fraud has historically featured heavily, dishonest claims have increasingly been recognised in wider areas of personal injury litigation. Chambers has a depth of experience at all levels, including ranked individuals. Members of Chambers have:

• dealt with the full range of fraud and Fundamental Dishonesty (FD) in both motor and other personal injury claims.
• successfully defended claims involving staged accidents, fraud rings, phantom passengers, late-notification, low-velocity impacts and every variety of exaggerated or fabricated injury and credit hire claim.
• marshalled open-source intelligence, social media, engineering evidence, dash cam footage, telematics and ANPR in support of fraud allegations.
• provided advice and advocacy at every stage, from an initial assessment of whether to plead fraud through to effective cross-examination at trial.
• conducted contempt of court and committal proceedings.
• obtained findings of rehabilitation invoice fraud against a physiotherapist.
• obtained wasted costs against a physiotherapist company and a Claimant’s solicitors.
• saved insurers many thousands of pounds by preventing them having to pay out for fabricated and exaggerated claims, and allowing them to recover the costs of defending such claims by securing numerous findings of FD.

The combined skills of Chambers, can provide a complete service in defending against Civil Fraud, whether for motor claims, casualty claims, costs and credit hire.

Civil Fraud Expertise

• Credit Hire

Notable Cases

• Khan v Aviva, Oxford County Court [2022] 11 WLUK 663 DJ Lumb
• Blake & oth v Advantage Insurance & oth (June 2022) Warwick CC
• Elvidge v Covea [2021] 1 WLUK 576
• Zaib v Cole (2020)
• Ghani v Advantage Insurance 1.10.20, 26.3.21 Burnley County Court
• Rehman v Aviva UK Insurance (Birmingham County Court, Recorder McLoughlin, 1 November 2019)
• Akotiah v Piskorz (Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court, District Judge Bell, 16 August 2019)
• Aviva UK Insurance v Lawrence, (Oxford County Court, HHJ Clarke, 10 April 2018)
• Brighthouse Ltd v Tazegul​ [2016] EWHC 2277 (QB)