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Insurance Commission of WA report finds Melville in payout top 10

Bryce LuffMelville Gazette

MELVILLE has made a top 10 list highlighting motor injury insurance payouts across WA local government areas.

Figures from the Insurance Commission of Western Australia’s latest annual report revealed it paid out more than $460 million over the 2016-17 financial year to people injured in crashes across the state.

Locally, more than $19.9 million was handed over to claimants for incidents in Melville.

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The figure placed the area seventh on the list of local government areas with the largest crash claim payout totals for the year.

At the top, close to $30 million was paid out for crashes in Stirling.

The ICWA offered up $25.8m for incidents in Swan, placing the area second.

Cockburn took third, with the ICWA paying out $23.4m.

In total, motor injury insurance claims managed by the ICWA in 2016-17 totalled more than $2.6 billion.

The figure was a combination of the $462 million paid out and estimated future claims liabilities of $2.2 billion.

“Forty percent, or $1.1 billion, of costs are for care provided to people injured in car crashes,” the report read.

At the end of the 2016-17 financial year, the ICWA’s Motor Injury Insurance Division was still managing 5980 outstanding claims.

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