• Aviva reveals changing face of fraud
    • 25/05/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Aviva uncovered more than 11,000 instances of insurance fraud last year, with motor accounting for about 60% of all fraudulent claims detected. It found that the proportion of fraud detected on motor injury claims rose by 10.7% last year, although it is expected that the whiplash reforms introduced at the start of [...]
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  • Birmingham tops crash-for-cash list
    • 17/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Birmingham remains the country’s most prevalent area for crash-for-cash fraud. Analysis by the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) of 2.7 million motor insurance claims made across the UK in between 1 October 2019 to 31 December 2020 identified over 170,000 claims which could be linked to suspected crash-for-cash [...]
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  • Crash for cash dropped by £60m
    • 17/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    New figures released suggest the cost of ‘crash for cash’ fraud has dropped by almost £60 million in the last three years following a major crackdown by insurers and the police, forcing insurance cheats to change tack. Statistics from the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) indicate an overall decline in ‘crash for [...]
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  • Bradford bodyshop involved in insurance scam
    • 09/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The owner of a bodyshop that boasts of clients such as top footballers and music superstars, has paid back tens of thousands of pounds to an insurance company after it was found to be involved in an alleged ‘cash-for-crash’ scheme. The Yorkshire Post reported that Naveed Khan, the founder of Enkahnz in [...]
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  • Two men sentenced for staging crash
    • 06/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Two men who met and became friends in prison were yesterday (Thursday, 5 November) sentenced at the Old Bailey after staging a ‘cash for crash’ accident in order to claim over £16k on their car insurance. Kais Bougoussa, aged 46 (1/5/69) from Stratford Road, E3 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud by [...]
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  • Insurance fraud uncovered by telematics
    • 14/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Insurance companies are now fighting fraudulent claims by using driving data and reports of journeys recorded in black boxes installed under car dashboards. For the first time, an insurer has been able to use the information from the black box technology, or telematics, to successfully prove in court that an [...]
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  • Cash-for-crash fraudster jailed
    • 05/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A man has been jailed after it emerged that he claimed money for an incident that occurred in Chiswick, yet his accomplice wasn’t even in the country at the time. Mohamed Labre Chiadmi, also known as Adam Leno, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and two counts of making false declarations to obtain [...]
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  • 100,000 parents ‘fronting’ insurance
    • 02/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    New research from The Co-operative Insurance reveals that around one hundred thousand parents are currently ‘fronting’ motor insurance for their offspring. One in ten of parents of young drivers in the UK currently aged 17-25 have admitted to fronting their son’s and daughter’s motor insurance policy at [...]
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  • APU helps dismantle car theft ring
    • 22/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A high-level, international car theft operation that focused on the theft of high value 4x4 vehicles and those equipped with keyless ignition systems, has been broken up by law enforcement agencies and anti-fraud investigators APU Ltd, part of the Automotive Insurance Solutions Group. APU’s blend of covert, [...]
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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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