This is most definitely true.  It&#x27;s because a lifetime of compensation is most of the time more money than a single flat payment for causing death.  I know of one foreigner who upon accidentally injuring a pedestrian, non too seriously, was advised by his expat friends to get on the first available flight out on the double.  Staying would have involved a victim exaggerating injuries and extorting a foreigner for life.  So he went to the bank got some money and beelined it to the airport.  Not even going back to his flat to pick up things, except for a friend picking up his passport.<p>Sad perverse incentives.<p>Of course he can never go there again as he&#x27;s officially a fugitive.