Opinion: Compulsory Electric Bike Insurance Misses the Bigger Problems
From the Editor’s smokin’ laptop, comes this predictable grumble about compulsory insurance for electric bicycles, due to come into law across the UK, once some [...]
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Motor Insurance Fraud: MIB Backs Police Campaign Against Uninsured Drivers
This week around 35 police forces across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are taking part in Operation Drive Insured (12-18 November 2018) in a week of enhanced operations [...]
Quotezone Survey Reveals Car Insurance Claim Hotspots Across UK
Comparison website Quotezone.co.uk has compiled and analysed information from Police forces across England and Wales and discovered that rural areas tend to have less [...]
MIB Data Shows Estimated 25,000 Uninsured Learner Drivers on UK Roads
Data from MIB’s Police Helpline has revealed an estimated 25,000 unqualified drivers are using Britain’s roads without valid car insurance. In the past 12 months MIB [...]
Claims News: Another Crash For Cash Fraudster Jailed
Some news just in from the City of London Police Insurance Fraud Dept; Asif Javed, 25, of Kenelm Road, Birmingham, was sentenced on Friday 7 September 2018 to a 22 month [...]
`Steak’ Your Claim Sir? Not if You’re Using Injury Photos from You Tube
Latest anti-fraud news from the IFED: A man was sentenced to 8 months, suspended for 2 years, for fraud by false representation at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday 11 April [...]
RAC Says UK-Wide Study Needed to Assess Value of 20mph Limits
More councils across the UK are setting up 20mph speed limit zones in urban areas. But will this reduce road accidents significantly? Pete Williams from the RAC comments on [...]
RAC Study Shows Fewer Drivers Caught Using Mobiles at The Wheel
Just over 1,700 fewer drivers were stopped for illegally using a handheld phone while driving in the three months after the introduction of tougher penalties in the spring, [...]