What im surprised about is how this isnt bigger news, yes it was on Watchdog and yes its on alot of sites like this but im surprised its not main front page stuff. I mean, Police and health workers selling our details onto companies? How is this being swept under the carpet to the degree it is. Much lesser data protection scandals have been nationwide news. It also blows a big hole in the myth that its the young drivers causing premiums to go up, uninsured drivers making it go up, economic crisis, increased crime etc, the dirty secret (now not so secret) is that its the system itself doing it to itself and in the end benefitting nobody (presumably not even itself). I saw a case where a man received phonecalls encouraging him to make an injury claim for an accident where he wasnt in the car at the time, and if he had done so, some other insurance company wouldve had to of spent millions on lawyers to prove he wasnt in the car, a major waste of money and ultimatley is paid for by you, i and all of us.

It is patently obvious that telling everybody their premiums have risen because of other people's claims, will only ever bread a mentality that 'I may as well make a claim of my own then...

Whilst I understand why you say this, you are wrong.

All these companies do is put the idea into peoples heads; they do not force them to lie & make up ficticious injuries.

The problem is the GBP who are in the main (in my experience), lying cheating thieving self-centred beings when the opportunity arises