DAC Beachcroft Snap Into Action And Find Claimant Fundamentally Dishonest

DAC Beachcroft's casualty fraud team has secured another Fundamental Dishonesty finding against a claimant who sought to claim damages for personal injury following an alleged accident at work. He alleged that he was injured while using a ratchet strap to fasten a caravan to a trailer. He alleged also that the strap snapped causing him to slam his hand onto the metal trailer. He said that he stopped at the services on the way back to the depot to purchase painkilling medication and that his employer was not interested when he reported it. Liability was denied.

The basis of the defence was that the claimant had made the accident up. The claimant's medical record entries showed that he suffered an identical injury to his hand two weeks after he left the defendant's employ, all straps were in good condition, none were replaced or defective, no accident had been reported, tachograph evidence proved that no stop had been made on the way back to the depot, the claimant's