Insurance Regulation

Credit Union Directors Charged With False Accounting

The latest enforcement action news from the FCA; The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started criminal proceedings against 4 individuals for conspiracy to commit false accounting, with 3 of them facing further charges for fraud.  Terry […]

Insurance claims

Firestarter Burned Himself While Carrying Out Insurance Scam

The latest case report from Allianz FYI; A policyholder who presented a claim for fire damage to his business has been convicted of fraud after pleading guilty to giving insurers a false statement about his […]

Legal

Redcentric CFO is Sentenced to Five Years Jail

Latest from the FCA on a sorry saga that goes back almost a decade when the company was known as Redstone. Incredibly, Redstone/Redcentric has continually been awarded public sector IT and telephony contracts throughout its […]

Fraud

Fraud: Fake Insurance Claim Wins Director a Suspended Sentence

A company director has been sentenced after he doctored a ‘Form of Acceptance’, which he’d used previously, in an attempt to bypass his policy’s claim limit and falsely gain £405k from the insurer. On Tuesday […]

Insurance claims

Insurance Fraud in Decline, Says New Research From Aviva

The value of fraudulent claims detected by the UK’s largest insurer has fallen. Aviva detected £80m worth of suspect or proven fraudulent insurance claims in 2018, down 11% (£10m) from 2017. The scale of insurance […]

Insurance claims

Revealed: 40% of Brits Would Make False Insurance Claim – If They Could Blag It

They say the only real crime in Britain today is being caught – well, most politicians generally live by that philosophy. But a new piece of  research suggests that many of us WOULD try to […]

Insurance claims

Fraud: Cifas Data Shows Fake Insurance Claims Scammers Are Still Bang At It

Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service with over 450 members, has released new figures showing a marked increase in the number of individuals committing insurance fraud with false claims. Between 2017 and 2018, there […]

Fraud

Opinion: Tackling Smartphone Insurance Fraud

In this Opinion piece, Toby Stubbington, Managing Director of loveit coverit, looks at the latest techniques in fighting fraudulent mobile phone claims. With modern handsets like the iPhone X, Blackphone and Samsung Galaxy S9 all […]