A study by two insurance trade groups has found costs for vehicle injury claims in Britain are soaring and claims are rising despite a drop in the auto death and injury rate.

The total cost of bodily injury claims paid by U.K. auto insurers has significantly outstripped inflation over the past decade, rising at 9.5 percent a year between 1996 and 2006–more than double the growth in average earnings, the Fourth UK Bodily Injury Awards Study reported.

Over the last 20 years costs have risen by 840 percent, according to the study commissioned by the International Underwriting Association (IUA) and Association of British Insurers (ABI).

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