Legal

Former Regal Pawnbrokers & Collateral Directors Jailed

Latest update from the FCA; On 14 July 2023, Peter Currie and Andrew Currie were sentenced to 5.5 years’ and 2.5 years’ imprisonment for fraud and money laundering following prosecution by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Before its collapse into administration in February 2018, Collateral […]

Global insurance trends

US News: Jail Time For Former California Insurance Agent

The latest from the California Dept of Insurance; Francis Okyere, 70, a previously licensed insurance agent in Westlake Village, was sentenced yesterday after pleading no contest to 17 felony counts of identity theft and grand […]

Travel Insurance

Arrests Made After Crackdown on Bogus Travel Claims

The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) executed warrants across the country as part of a crackdown on travel insurance fraud across the country, resulting in seven arrests. Bogus travel sickness claims […]

News

Extra £19.5m Compensation Scheme For Wrongly Accused Sub-Postmasters

The latest update from the UK government on the Post Office Fujitsu Horizon software scandal, which led to the wrongful conviction, imprisonment and sometimes suicide, of those falsely accused. Incredibly, despite Fujitsu producing faulty software […]