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30LEGAL MEDICOMAGAZINESponsored by:Reducing Fraudulent Holiday Sickness Claims The Solicitors Regulation Authority is investigating several firms in the claimant personal injury sector that are suspected of taking on fraudulent or exaggerated holiday sickness claims. There has been an unprecedented rise in these types of personal injury claims, due to touts targeting tourist hotspots and encouraging people to seek compensation. The Foreign Office is warning people travelling to Spain not to be tempted into making a false holiday sickness claim or they risk prosecution.Andrew Twambley, spokesperson for A2J, the campaign group for the claimant PI sector said: “We need to help the SRA help the sector. The public has made clear they want an end to cold calling and claims touting, and all of us, law firms, insurers, travel operators and regulators, are responsible for making that happen and shoring up public trust in the system. We also need insurers, travel operators and law enforcement agencies to take a much more aggressive approach to prosecutions.”Read more at www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/report-firms-making-fraudulent-holiday-claims-claimant-group/5061446.articleNAHL is to launch its own law firm on 1 July 2017 after being awarded an alternative business structure (ABS) licence and signing a deal with Cardiff-based NewLaw Solicitors.This is in response to the recent personal injury reforms, and will put it in competition with its own panel law firms.Russell Atkinson, CEO of NAHL, said: “The setting up of this ABS is a positive development in executing the group’s strategic plans to advance its business model and prepare the division for the PI market changes announced by the government in February 2017."The ABS will trade under the name Your Law LLP and is expected to start business on 1 July 2017.Read more at markets.ft.com/data/announce/Alternative Business Structure for National Accident Helpline (NAHL)