All DWF articles
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IT Awards 2024Insurance Times Awards 2024: DWF Law seeks to address motor claims fraud with telematics data
Benedict Harper Drew, specialist manager of the fraud and financial crime team at DWF, talks about the company’s entry for the Excellence in Claims Technology - Claims Management Service Provider award
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IT Awards 2024Insurance Times Awards 2024: Aviva and DWF Law’s partnership focuses on controlling inflationary pressures
Irene Rodger, casualty claims strategy executive lead at Aviva, discusses the insurer’s joint entry with DWF Law into the Claims Partner of the Year award
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IT Awards 2024Insurance Times Awards 2024: DWF Law’s Fenced initiative seeks to ‘trailblaze precedents’ for claims cases
Craig Budworth, head of organised fraud at DWF Law, discusses the firm’s entry for the Excellence in Fraud Mitigation – Service Provider award
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IT Awards 2024Insurance Times Awards 2024: DWF discusses Northern Ireland fraud initiative Operation Diamond
Louise Trimble, head of Northern Irish counter fraud at DWF, talks about the firm’s entry for the Challenger of the Year award
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News AnalysisUptick in fraudulent tinnitus claims is ‘an inherent, major issue’ for motor insurers
With tinnitus injuries attracting anything up to £90,000 in claim payouts, squashing fraud in this area is vitally important in protecting both policyholder and insurer purse strings
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News‘Huge’ growth in property fraud is ‘non-stop’ – DWF Law
In particular, ‘cannabis farms are a big issue’ concerning commercial and domestic properties, as well as suspicious escape of water claims
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News AnalysisBriefing: ‘Commercial fraud is a massive problem’ flying under the industry’s radar
Insurers are ‘shocked’ by the level of commercial linked fraud they are uncovering, says law firm partner
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NewsLaw firm signs AI Code of Conduct
’AI has the potential to revolutionise the claims sector,’ says initiator
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News AnalysisTackling opportunistic fraud requires ‘a measured approach’
Experts at March’s Fraud Charter event discussed the appropriate response to the shifting profiles of those carrying out fraud
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News AnalysisBriefing: Commercial brokers are ‘very naïve’ about insurance fraud
Counter fraud experts question how commercial brokers are being trained to spot insurance fraud
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News AnalysisConsolidation of PI law firms poses new classes of risk for insurers
Increased demands for profit at consolidated claimant law firms will come ’at the cost of the insurance industry and its clients,’ says partner
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News AnalysisOpinion: HNW clients provide unexpected fraudster pool
Editor Katie Scott discusses how the ongoing cost of living crisis is seeing high net worth individuals resort to insurance fraud – an issue that has been previously ‘masked’ according to fraud experts
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News AnalysisRevealed: Who won at the Insurance Times Awards 2022?
With gold, silver and bronze awards across 36 categories, the winners from last night’s Insurance Times Awards have now been revealed
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NewsForum of Insurance Lawyers elects DWF Law partner as new president
The new appointee said she would continue to support the insurance industry on ‘pressing issues’
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NewsInsurance Times Awards 2022: DWF Law provides ‘profitable support’ around somatic illness claims
John Lezemore, partner and head of DWF’s chronic pain group, tells Insurance Times why his law firm should win the Legal Claims Partner of the Year category at the 2022 Insurance Times Awards
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NewsInsurance Times Awards 2022: Legal Claims Partner of the Year nominees announced
Four law firms are competing for the Legal Claims Partner of the Year prize at 2022’s Insurance Times Awards
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AnalysisBriefing: Staged e-scooter accidents are ‘already happening’ and leading to ‘questionable’ claims
With pandemic-related fraud dwindling, insurance fraud experts believe the next emerging risk will come from the insurtech sector
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Analysis‘Significant spike’ in tool theft claims poses fraud risk
With ‘the value of these individual claims getting higher’, insurance fraud experts must be alive to cost of living linked inflated claims from end customers and tradespeople
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NewsExactly 94% of businesses are satisfied with their insurer service – DWF
A lack of empathy and support from insurers was a key complaint from younger insureds, however
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AnalysisBriefing: Was the MoJ’s part two consultation response worth the bother?
With a five-year gap since the initial reform consultation and the OIC portal still posing functionality problems, has the MoJ taken the easy way out with its no change agenda for part two of the whiplash reforms?
