A motorcyclist who claimed £4m for personal injury has won the dubious honour of making the largest fundamental dishonesty claim ever rejected under the Untraced Drivers’ Agreement 2017
The Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), with the help of Keoghs, discovered social media posts showing the claimant karting and attaching tow ropes for a vehicle recovery business he set up using nearly £190,000 in interim payments. This contradicted his claims, supported by expert evidence, of limited mobility to the extent he could not walk for more than 50m and was unable to work.
Paul Baxter, partner at Keoghs, who assisted MIB, said the outcome was ‘a significant victory’.
