Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)
11:00 am
Mr. Maurice Priestley:
It has to be broken down. Of the 33,000 claims we receive, we are dependent on the insurance companies consenting to us assessing the claims. Of the 33,000, we get consent on 50% or 55% of them and, within those, we are dependent then on the medical evidence available to us as to whether they are capable of being assessed. We are subject to timeframes. If somebody has an injury and it is not possible to determine the final outcome of the injury within the nine months available to us to assess the claim, we have to release it. That accounts for some of them.
Last year, we assessed approximately 12,000 claims and of those 12,000, approximately 60% were accepted, but it would be somewhat narrow-focused-----
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