Fraud News – Page 28
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NewsCEGA expands fraud investigations team
Medical assistance and claims handling firm CEGA has appointed a special investigator and invested in fraud training. CEGA said George Laney will build on his experience in the company’s claims department and as senior claims advisor. High-level fraud training will be provided for claims and assistance ...
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NewsABI extends funding to initiative that tackles fraud
The ABI said it will extend the funding commitment to the Insurance Fraud Register (IFR) until 2020. The IFR, which is managed by the industry-sponsored Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB), holds details of insurance fraudsters, suppliers and professional enablers. “The industry’s commitment to the IFR indicates that ...
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NewsIFED warns Scottish residents of ghost brokers
Detectives from the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) have warned Scottish residents about ghost brokers targeting their addresses. IFED officers will visit residents in Aberdeen, Inverness and the Isles of Skye and Harris as part of an investigation into suspected ghost brokers ...
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NewsEast London 'worst for uninsured vehicles'
East London tops the list of UK’s uninsured driving hot spots, according to Churchill Insurance. East London has the highest proportion of uninsured vehicles at 13.4%, but Birmingham has the most uninsured cars with 55,142 uninsured vehicles. Across the UK, there are over 1 million uninsured ...
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NewsRunner ordered to pay Aviva £9,213 after ‘fundamentally dishonest’ whiplash claim
A runner has been ordered to pay Aviva’s cost of £9,213 after an investigation into his whiplash claim saw him running, hiking and working. During the court hearing at Liverpool Country Court the judge found that 29-year-old William Owen’s whiplash claim was “fundamentally dishonest”. Owen first ...
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NewsFive fraudsters brought low by stupidity or arrogance
Many fraudsters are caught out by their own arrogance, stupidity, a lack of attention to detail, or by pushing their frauds just one scam too far. With specialist police investigators working with the insurance industry, insurers are more alert for inconsistencies and anomalies in claims, and ...
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NewsABI welcomes FOIL’s statement to tackle fraud
The ABI has welcomed the launch of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL) Statement of Competence for Insurance Solicitors that will help insurance lawyers tackle fraud. The statement highlights that lawyers working for insurers must be alert to fraudulent activity, have knowledge of fraudulent activity relevant ...
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NewsWoman sentenced over income protection fraud
A 45-year-old woman has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years after making fraudulent claims on her employer’s income protection insurance policy. Balbinder Mahil from Luton pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and was sentenced in May 2016. Mahil was also ordered ...
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NewsBusinessman jailed for £114,000 insurance scam against NFU Mutual
A kitchen business salesman has been jailed for three years after using fake documents to defraud NFU Mutual in a £114,000 insurance claim. Clive Thomas Wade was found guilty of fraud by false representation and sentenced on Friday 24 June at Grimsby Crown Court after a ...
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NewsInsurance saleswoman faces jail for £31k commission fraud
A saleswoman at health insurer Simplyhealth has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for a £31,500 mis-selling scam. Jacqueline Buckmaster, 54, of Rumney, Cardiff, was handed the sentence, which is suspended for two years, at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to fraud by ...
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NewsTelematics data helps uncover £500,000 fraud – Insurethebox
Insurance fraud cases worth £500,000 have been uncovered by telematics underwriting agency Insurethebox using data collected from black boxes inside cars. The firm said it had used the data to disprove 31 claims, involving seven accidents over five months, and taken the drivers to court. In one example, the claimant ...
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NewsFraud Charter: Beware losing expertise as FCA takes on CMCs
Government urged “not to throw out the baby with the bath water” when oversight of the claims management industry is taken over by ‘tougher’ FCA
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NewsTeenage 'ghost broker' jailed for a year for faking Allianz policies
A 19-year-old ‘ghost broker’ from Walsall has been jailed for a year for selling fake motor insurance to unsuspecting customers, leaving them uninsured and illegally driving on the roads. An investigation by the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) discovered that Azeem Mahmood Hussain was selling false ...
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NewsAviva head of fraud named as IFB technical board chair
Aviva head of fraud, Tom Gardiner, has been appointed as the new chair of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) technical board. Gardiner takes over from Richard Davies, who will remain on the board. The technical board, which was set up in 2011, comprises of leading fraud ...
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NewsIce-cream van fraudster faces a year in jail
A man has been handed a one-year suspended sentence for his part in a series of insurance frauds involving an ice-cream van. Thirty-nine-year-old Barry Mark Sandmann of Brompton Lane, Strood, Kent was sentenced on Friday 27 May at the Old Bailey. In addition to his suspended ...
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News'Ghost broking' courier sentenced for defrauding Liberty in £89,000 scam
A 33-year-old courier from Epsom has been sentenced after he admitted to setting up over 100 bogus car insurance policies for his unsuspecting customers and defrauding victims and Liberty Insurance out of a combined £89,000. Renan Gomes was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Friday 20 May ...
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NewsLack of trust between consumers and insurers is fuelling fraud - AXA
Up to one third of Britons have committed insurance fraud, a report commissioned by AXA has found. A lack of trust between consumers and insurers and the view that insurance fraud is a victimless crime are encouraging otherwise honest policyholders to exaggerate claims. According to insurers ...
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NewsAircraft engineer jailed for £240k fake lost baggage claims
An aircraft engineer who made £240,000 in fake claims for lost baggage has been jailed for two years. 45-year-old Miguel Kakaie of King Street, Aberdeen was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 10 May after a six day trial, which followed an investigation by the City ...
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NewsManchester ghost broker jailed for £200k scam
A ghost broker who set up 151 fraudulent motor policies as part of a £200,000 scam has been jailed for 20 months. 38-year-old Romanian national Maur Dumitru of Sherrington Street, Manchester, went on the run for nine months after failing to appear at court for his ...
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NewsRSA claims handler jailed for £55,000 fraud
A former RSA employee has been jailed for 10 months for illegally passing on customer details to a law firm and adding friends and family to genuine claims in a £55,000 fraud. Anthony Francis Joseph Rattigan, 30, an insurance claim handler from Liverpool was convicted of ...
