• Crash for cash scams spreading
    • 27/06/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau says it has found evidence that ‘crash for cash’ fraudsters are starting to operate in new areas in the UK. The ‘crash for cash’ scam sees fraudsters slam on their brakes in congested areas so the car behind drives into the back of them, then claiming compensation. The IFB said [...]
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  • IFB launches landmark consultation
    • 04/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has taken a landmark step towards extending its services to defendant lawyers, investigators and other industry suppliers, by launching a consultation on ‘affiliate membership’. The consultation, launched today, invites suppliers assisting insurers in the fight against fraud to [...]
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  • IFB evolution ‘on track’
    • 21/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The evolution of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) is ‘on track,’ according to the Bureau’s strategy project board Chair, Mihir Pandya. Following a cross-industry consultation in 2014, the IFB’s new five-year strategy (2015 – 2019) was launched, with two primary areas of development [...]
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  • Public fights back against insurance cheats
    • 08/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The UK public is being thanked by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) for fighting back against insurance cheats and reporting valuable information they have about insurance fraud to the IFB’s ‘Cheatline’. In 2014 over 500 reports were made to the Cheatline every month by members of the public, 6,347 reports in [...]
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  • Motorists cutting corners with insurance
    • 13/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Thousands of motorists are paying a high price, in some cases driving illegally, by cutting corners when buying motor insurance according to latest figures out today from the ABI (Association of British Insurers). ABI research shows that in 2014 insurers uncovered 212,000 attempted dishonest applications for motor [...]
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  • Thirty-eight charged over ‘cash for crash’
    • 28/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Thirty-eight people have been charged over an alleged ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud in Cumbria. Police said the offences took place across the county between 2010 and 2014, and the uncovering of the offences comes as a result of a joint operation between Cumbria Police, the Insurance Fraud Bureau and the [...]
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  • IFB respond to Budget 2015
    • 09/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has issued a statement following the announcement (on 8 July) in the ‘Emergency’ Budget, that there will be a cap on charges imposed by claims management companies. Ben Fletcher, director of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), said: ‘There are many genuine Claims Management [...]
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  • Van crash conman jailed
    • 15/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A prolific conman who made up multiple van crashes to make more than £33,000 from fraudulent insurance claims and then went on the run to evade justice has been jailed for three years and five months. Abdul Qadeer Qadri plotted diagrams of ‘accidents’ in a notebook which was uncovered by detectives from the [...]
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  • Covéa joins the IFR
    • 08/04/2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Covéa Insurance has become the latest insurer to join the Insurance Fraud Register (IFR). The IFR, managed by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), aims to create a single industry database of known fraudsters which will help insurers in their fight against the significant costs of fraud. Members of the IFR have the [...]
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