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CIFAS Reveals 27% Increase in Fraud Cifas members report a 27% rise in false insurance claims across the UK in the past year, with spikes in household and motor insurance CIFAS 21/3/2019
Teacher’s whiplash claim found to be fundamentally dishonest A teacher claimed she’d been almost knocked off her bike by a van, which the driver and his passenger denied youTalkinsurance 11/3/2019
Three Men Convicted of murdering Five people in Leicester explosion Three men have been convicted of murder after deliberately starting a fire at a Leicester shop that killed five people, including a woman and her two sons, in a plot to claim a £300,000 insurance pay-out. The Guardian 28/12/2018
Manchester Arena attack insurance fraudster ordered to pay back £139,000 The woman used details of friends and family to make 31 fraudulent medical claims youTalkinsurance 18/9/2018
Judge convicts 'cash for crash' trio without jury after attempts to bribe jurors A judge who discharged a jury after attempts were made to bribe its members has convicted three men involved in a "cash for crash" scam....
Doncaster Free Press 28/2/2017
How investigators use Facebook to snare insurance fraudsters One of the country's top insurance companies says it has witnessed a 25pc increase in "claims fraud detection" in the last two years. News Irish News 28/2/2017
37 years for Leeds bandits whose ‘cash for crash’ fraud led to death of Betty, 88 A PROFESSIONAL crime network was behind a conspiracy which led to the death of a great grandmother killed by a cash for crash gang, a court heard The Yorkshire Post 28/2/2017
Fraud officers arrest a mother and son after they 'faked her death in a Zanzibar car crash to collect the £140,000 pay out' Mother accused of faking death in Zanzibar car crash but was actually in Canada
Daily Mail 15/2/2017
Crash-for-cash scammers targeting drivers in Leicestershire - for the past TWO years Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/crash-for-cash-scammers-targeting-drivers-in-leicestershire-for-the-
An eye witness has come forward to expose a crash-for-cash scam targeting motorists at a busy Leicestershire roundabout.
Leicester Mercury 7/2/2017
Innocent pensioner died after four fraudsters rammed into car in 'crash for cash' plot, court hears An innocent pensioner died after four fraudsters rammed into a car in a “crash for cash” plot, a court heard. The Telegraph 7/2/2017
Wedding picture ruins possible £25k insurance scam after Facebook search rumbles dodgy pair This is the wedding picture that lifted the lid on a possible £25,000 insurance scam. Daily Record 6/2/2017
Car crash compensation claim thrown out as judge says evidence was "unbelievable" The judge also said he found the man to be “guarded and defensive”. The Journal 6/2/2017
Crash for cash' gang of 19 men and women who engineered 300 accidents to make £1.1m fake insurance claims are jailed for total of 24 years Ringleader Mohammed Zubair Jamil was estimated to have caused 300 crashes
Mail on line 20/12/2016
Nine months extra jail time for the Carlisle cash for crash mastermind A criminal locked up for masterminding a £600,000 fraud has had nine months added to his sentence for other crimes. Nes and Star 8/12/2016
New technology will tackle insurance fraud, says inventor of Jolt crash-recording app NEW technology could be the only way to crack down on the fraud which has prevented the motor insurance sector from making a profit for 14 years. Daily Echo 7/12/2016
Munster-based fraud ring 'claims more than €1m in 10 years' An insurance company has claimed that an insurance fraud ring operating in Munster has claimed more than €1 million in the last decade. RTE 7/12/2016
Seven years for 'cash for crash' mastermind The mastermind behind Cumbria’s biggest ever “cash for crash” insurance fraud has been jailed for seven years. News and Star 18/11/2016
Judge hears of huge "cash for crash" scam as hearing gets underway Carlisle's most senior Crown Court judge has begun sentencing 35 people who were part of a huge "cash for crash" insurance fraud. News and Star 17/11/2016
Crackdown on whiplash claims could knock £40 off car insurance bills Ministry of Justice announces plan to tackle ‘toxic’ compensation culture by making it much tougher to win payouts The Guardian 17/11/2016
Epsom ghostbroker sentenced for £89,000 fraud Renan Gomes admitted to setting up over 100 fraudulent car insurance policies. Insurance Age 25/5/2016
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