Dubious Volcanic ash claims rise

Dubious Claims rise: Customers forced to cancel their holidays because of the volcanic ash or were left stranded are already trying to claim quite legitimately from their insurance firms.

But travel lawyers however, have claimed that travel consumers would now also start making dubious claims for claiming holidays they felt were spoilt, by the Volcanic Ash.

So to try and force through a claim, the range of excuses includes some rather dubious classics such as food poisoning or general dissatisfaction with the holiday…

The massive and rahter chronic rise in “distress and disappointment�claims are going to rise exponentially.. .

Holidaymakers whose trips were wholly unaffected by the Icelandic Ash cloud, but believed their holiday had been ruined because of worry about flight cancellations will try and claim for other issues.

It is inevitable that there will now be a rise in claims from those whose holidays were affected by the volcanic ash and from those whose
holidays were not.

Managing director at broker Rock Insurance Antony Martin agreed, saying: We have already noticed a sharp increase in claims like this, and there are so many consumer champions at the moment, these will definitely continue to rise.

Martin said claiming had been made easier because the legal system had made it more simple to fast track cases.