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Oct 2021
10m 56s

The magic pudding and the claim farmer, ...

ACTUARIES INSTITUTE
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In this podcast, Geoff Atkins and colleague Raj Kanhai discuss the Virtual IDSS concurrent session titled ‘The Magic Pudding and the Claim Farmer, a Never-ending Story’. Raj and Geoff are both co-presenting and discuss their experiences with the injury and disability scheme sectors in this regard.
With a career that spans 35-plus years, Geoff Atkins has had the opportunity to observe the good, bad and ugly of compensation schemes in Australia and overseas. This has included giving advice on matters such as insurance fraud and scheme design, designing schemes to try to tackle issues like claim farming.

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