• ‘Blatant deception’ revealed
    • 21/09/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    A former detective and now managing director of Kent-based Claims Management and Adjusting (CMA) has revealed what he considers to be ‘one of most blatant attempted deceptions I’ve seen in all my years as a motor insurance fraud investigator.’ Philip Swift said that last October Octavian Radu from Oxfordshire [...]
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • IFB welcomes guilty verdict
    • 02/04/2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has welcomed the guilty verdicts handed down yesterday at Manchester Crown Court to a group of fraudsters who staged ‘crash for cash’ insurance scams totalling over £1 million. The fraudsters staged seven accidents in Chester over a 15-month period, targeting buses owned by [...]
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