Special police unit for insurance claims advocated

Bawjiase (Central Region) 12 March '99

Mr Kwame Argo Larbie, an educationist, has appealed to the minister of the Interio to set up a special unit within the police service to handle cases involving insurance claims. He said the present way of dealing with the situation leaves much to be desired because people putting in claims from insurance companies "go through hell before paltry compensations are paid to them." " Sometimes the insurance companies behave as if they are giving favours to accident victims when in fact that is not the case." Mr Larbie who is proprietor of Argo Larbie International Schools at Bawjiase in the Central Region, was speaking at a public forum on "the woes of accident victims in the 21st century".on Thursday. He hoped the establishment of such a unit within the police service would reduce the incidence of lawyers cheating people making claims on insurance companies. He further suggested that government should come out with a fixed percentage of the claims which lawyers must be entitled to instead of they (lawyers) dictating their terms. Mr Larbie alleged that in some cases lawyers collect the claims and pay very little to the victims.