MIB to take action as decline in uninsured drivers slows
Insurers have conceded they are largely powerless to prevent an uptick in uninsured drivers after the Motor Insurers' Bureau reported the number of motorists without insurance had “plateaued out” after a decade of steep decline.
MIB CEO Ashton West told Post that from the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2014 there has been an increase in both untraced and uninsured claims received by his organisation.
He added that a
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