Syndicate summons lawyers ‘profiting from road accident insurance’

AMMAN — The Jordan Bar Association (JBA) on Tuesday decided to summon lawyers who are reportedly breaking the syndicate’s law by personally profiting from road accidents’ insurance.

According to the JBA, a number of lawyers buy car accident reports from people in order to sue insurance companies and take the money for themselves.

The JBA’s by-law prohibits “purchasing rights subject to disputes”, according to JBA Vice President Rami Shawawrah.

“The association summoned the lawyers found involved in such practices and will refer them to a disciplinary committee,” he told The Jordan Times on Tuesday, stressing that these acts violate the profession’s code of conduct.

He noted that the JBA is cooperating with the Jordan Insurance Federation (JIF) to track down the violators.

“Cases of lawyers who purchase car accident reports for their own interests are rare, but we are committed to stopping them,” said Shawawrah.

By the end of July 2015, 72,290 traffic accidents were recorded in the Kingdom resulting in 338 deaths and 6,102 injuries, according to Public Security Department figures.

Around 8 per cent of the 1.42 million vehicles registered in the Kingdom are involved in causing traffic accidents each year, JIF President Ali Wazani said in previous remarks to The Jordan Times.

Wazani noted that the number of cars involved in accidents is around 114,000 on a yearly basis.