Cash converters just offer a service which doesnt make them dodgy if people abuse that service for criminal activity On your theory people must obviously buy these goods rather then the heroin users buying them back which is just what ebay does It sounds more like the police or your own insurance company are the dodgy ones passing on your (or your daughters) details onto injury claim lawyers
Where do you think personal injury lawyers get their business from? They get it from sending out millions of texts to random numbers in the hope that they come across someone who has been involved in some sort of incident, or they bung a few quid to people at insurance companies to pass them the details of incidents.
I think insurance companies and the police sell the details of people who have been in an accident Its ok blaming these companies but it has to be down to the people who use them
(1) Cold calling is a breach of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct. (2) Insurers refer clients to claims management companies, not solicitors firms. The CMC's then contact clients to see if they want to bring a claim (due to reason (1) solicitors can't contact them directly). Solicitors' firms do pay referral fees to CMC's to get business. This used to be unlawful, but the Law Society (in their wisdom) decided to do away with the ban on referral fees several years ago. ps, no I'm not a PI lawyer
Unless there's been an injury, the police don't even know about an accident, never mind sell the details. Those who make bogus claims are obviously to blame for making those claims, it doesn't mean we should be happy with having the companies that bring them being associated with our football club. You posed the question 'what's dodgy about them', it's been answered.
Any accident ought to be reported. If you want to make a claim for damage to your car (irrespective of injury) then your insurers will require a police ref no.
The club does seem to take it to extremes with the sponsors, could be worse, could be Twydale Turkeys again!
You don't need a police reference number for a car insurance claim, in fact, your not supposed to involve the police unless there's been an injury or the vehicles are obstructing the highway.
I don't like the new sponsorship, but at least they're solvent. It would be ultimately humiliating and detrimental for the club if they went out of business.
That's not entirely correct. Section 170 of the Road Traffic Act '88 makes it an offence if, following an accident where injury was suffered, or damage occurred to vehicles or to property, you do not stop and exchange details, or report the accident within 24 hours. If you don't stop you therefore must report the accident to the police
I appreciate your ire here LBM, and I also ain't a fan of offshored call centres, however, suggesting your details were passed over to the PIL(locks) by and Indian call centre is naive to say the least. It's common practise in the Insurance Industry to sell YOUR details on to whoever the hell wants them, and with your consent too. You didn't read the small print in your insurance schedule? Oh dear. Hate the game not the players.
It's a fairly common occurrence (although I don't have any stats on how many per year). I suspect that was one of the reasons why the Motors Insurance Bureau was set up.
I have several vehicles all insured through a broker who is supposed to prevent such things from occurring, both by not using discount insurers and by checking the small print to make sure my details aren't allowed to be passed to anyone else(he better be, it's all I'm paying him for), though it obviously doesn't do me any good if the insurance company for the bloke I happen to bump into passes them on anyway.
I would image that the majority of people who hit an empty parked car will not hang around or report it, so long as they think they weren't seen, but I suspect that people who hit cars with people in them will almost always stop and exchange details(unless they happen to be pissed).
The majority of people do stop and exchange details, but there are a large number who don't for varying reasons, eg they were pissed, they panicked, they thought they could get away with it, with minor bumps they didn't know they'd hit another car, they weren't insured, the car was stolen.... Having worked in a magistrates' court in a previous life I saw at first hand how many drivers were prosecuted for failing to stop and failing to report in the East Riding alone.
For anyone who's got a spare half hour, you can see why car insurance premiums have gone throught the roof in recent years (and why fully comp is generally about the same price as third party these days). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012s1xj/Panorama_The_Great_Car_Insurance_Swindle/
My missus was and has resigned her post due to all the activity that shouldnt be going on - data protection etc!
Roary, I'm not saying that it doesn't go on, I'm not that naive. If your missus was at a firm that was breaching the Code of Conduct then she did the right thing (I don't mean that in a patronising way). But to tar all solicitors with the same brush is wrong - there are a lot of solicitors who advise clients who are deserving of compensation and act within their conduct rules
