InsureTech

Anti-Fraud News: WeSee To Compete at Pitch Palace 9.0

WeSee, the deep learning-based computer vision innovator that can detect suspicious behaviour, has been selected to participate in Pitch@Palace 9.0, the initiative founded by The Duke of York in 2014 as a platform to amplify […]

Motor Insurance

County Durham Has Highest Percentage of Uninsured Drivers

When you say uninsured drivers, many of us would imagine it is largely an urban problem, but the reality is that a largely rural part of North East England, County Durham, has the highest percentage […]

Insurance Brokers

Police Warning on Ghost Brokers & Fake Insurance Documents

The City of London Police are warning drivers about the growing number of ghost brokers, who sell fake insurance policies. Over 850 reports of ‘ghost broking’ – where fraudsters sell fake car insurance – were […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Could the police outsource to insurers?

THE HEAD OF one of the UK’s largest police forces has invited insurers to help and invest in combating fraud and other criminal activity.

In a speech to the Insurance Institute of Manchester, Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police indicated his support for the idea of law enforcement working more closely with the private sector and ‘outsourcing’ certain services.
“We’ve got to save £138m from our budget,” said Mr Fahy. “We are saving insurance industry money [through our investigations of crash for cash, fraud etc] is there no way we can’t work together more?” […]