Motor Insurance

Cloned Plates: Was The BBC Investigation The Whole Truth?

Following an investigation from BBC London into the sale of number plates on Amazon, private plate supplier Regtransfers calls for further information. Was the BBC show the whole story, or was it something that lacked some journalistic rigour? […]

UK Insurance Trends

Academic Suggests Making Ransomware Payments Illegal

Professor Ciaran Martin told the The Guardian last week that he feels ransomware is `close to getting out of control,’ and that UK insurers are inadvertently funding organised crime by paying out on ransomware claims. […]

Fraud

Charles Taylor Featured on BBC’s Claimed & Shamed

A new series of BBC One’s popular Claimed and Shamed is to follow the progress of several fraudulent insurance claims with fraud specialist Simon Cook, Head of Special Investigation Services at Charles Taylor Technical Services, […]

News

BBC Reveals Scale of Catalytic Converter Theft – How Can We Stop It?

According to a BBC Radio 5 Live investigation, there were almost 13,000 recorded catalytic converter (CC) thefts in England and Wales, with Londoners particularly badly hit. In 2018, there were just over 2,000 thefts, says […]

News

Too Much Stick & No Carrot? App Data Needs to Be 100% Accurate

Following the news that Carrot Insurance telematics has allegedly been recording faulty driving data – that is, according to the BBC coverage of some Carrot policyholder experiences – drivers are looking in detail at how […]

News

Smart Motorways to Get More Cameras, More Safe Spaces. Not Good Enough

A government report is due to be published soon, which is expected to condemn so-called Smart Motorways, and the death toll caused by their unsafe design. Doing away with the hard shoulder to speed traffic […]

Insurance Regulation

Christmas Parties Could Lead to Claims, as Alcohol Fuels Workplace Incidents

Workers at London insurance market Lloyd’s have been told to behave during the Christmas party season, according to reports from the BBC. Chief executive John Neal has reportedly said that staff have been emailed warning […]