Insurance firms cash in on ambulance chasers - and we're paying

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Ambulance chasers have long had a poor reputation for cashing in on the needy or the greedy - encouraging them to find someone to blame for everything, and drag them through the courts in the hope of a payoff.

However, one personal injury lawyer has warned that these unscrupulous operators are not acting alone - they are aided and abetted by insurers.