Maritime group, binigyang diin ang kahalagahan ng ambulance chasing

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00:00 In the opening of the National Maritime Week this September,

00:04 the Maritime Group gave importance to the expansion of knowledge

00:08 of seafarers about ambulance chasing.

00:11 The Association of Licensed Manning Agencies explained that

00:15 the number of ship owners who get Philippine seafarers is decreasing

00:20 because of the increase of ambulance chasers in the Philippines.

00:24 Ambulance chasers are agents, lawyers, who are looking for seafarers

00:29 who were in an accident on a ship to file a claim with their ship owners.

00:34 After getting the claims, they will ask a large percentage of the crew

00:39 as payment for their help.

00:42 In this way, the ship owners are losing money

00:45 and the crew members are being chosen from other races.

00:51 These claims will go to their operational cost.

00:55 And with that, we are forced to crew somewhere else.

00:59 But they can only like Filipinos so much.

01:03 But if the numbers are saying they cannot afford us anymore due to fraud,

01:08 this is really fraud, then we have no option but really to see them go off.

01:14 *outro*