Analysis

Covid-19 claims yield abundant harvest for claims farmers

By 2020-09-28T07:20:00

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Delegates at Insurance Times’s third virtual roundtable say the ‘farming scope for Covid claims is absolutely massive’

Claims farmers have the potential to yield a rich harvest this autumn as the “farming scope for Covid claims is absolutely massive”, heard September’s Fraud Charter meeting – the third virtual roundtable hosted by Insurance Times this year.

Attendees across the board are beginning to see an uptick in claims farming activity, with Paul Holmes, insurance partner at law firm DWF, adding that “claims farmers are moving into Covid claims, as are the union law firms, so they are coming and they are going to be coming, we anticipate, very strongly”.

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