Ifig members vote to form UK chapter of international organisation as it celebrates 25th anniversary

Members of the Insurance Fraud Investigation Group (Ifig) have voted to form the UK chapter of the International Association of Special Investigation Units (Iasiu) at the organisation’s annual general meeting today (3 October 2024). 

Commenting on the decision of Ifig to join Iasiu and form its UK chapter, Ifig chair Ami North, who is also head of fraud at Tesco Underwriting, said: ”This is a significant achievement in Ifig’s history, formalising the organisation as part of a world wide collaboration.

“The insurance counter fraud industry now has a truly agnostic body that has the capability to collaborate across borders and world wide.”

Iasiu was founded in 1984 by insurance fraud investigators and is a non-profit organisation committed to creating a network of counter fraud professionals across the globe.

Ifig added that it could now share intelligence across a world wide network, which “the counter fraud industry has been crying out for”. 

Quarter century 

Ifig’s membership of counter-fraud insurance professionals also celebrated the organisation’s 25th anniversary at today’s meeting, with an agenda including updates from the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department’s detective chief inspector Tom Hill and discussions around the economic crime and corporate transparency act, which creates new punishments for companies that fail to prevent fraud that benefits them. 

The group was formed in 1999 as a non-profit body and has facilitated intelligence and knowledge sharing across the insurance counter fraud sector, with guest members from supporting organisations such as the police, HMRC and regulatory and public bodies. 

It holds Specified Anti-Fraud Organisation status and is thus allowed to host intelligence and data from public bodies, including the police.