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IFB : CMC closed and fraudsters jailed following IFB investigation
A claims management company (CMC) has been shut down and two fraudsters jailed after the Insurance Fraud Bureau and Metropolitan Police exposed a ‘crash...
Hill Dickinson and Thames Valley Police Secure Guilty Verdict in First Crash for Cash Fatality Case
A complex fraud investigation by Hill Dickinson Fraud Unit & Thames Valley Police has successfully ensured five people were found guilty last Thursday (10/1),...
New research shows ‘Crash for Cash’ fraud costing UK motorists £392 million
‘Crash for Cash’ fraudsters are “gambling with the lives of UK motorists” and costing honest policyholders nearly £400 million every year, according to a...
Motor insurance fraud : Gwent Police have arrested six people as part of an on-going investigation
In coordinated action across Gwent and South Wales, officers made the arrests following an investigation into suspicious claims referred by insurers and the Insurance...
IFB secures landmark ‘Crash for Cash’ prison sentence
An insurance fraudster who masterminded one of the UK’s biggest ‘crash for cash’ scams has received an unprecedented prison sentence of seven years and...
Insurance fraud : OCADO stricks hard on ‘Crash for Cash’ fraud
Ocado, award-winning online supermarket and retail distributor, has teamed up with Hill Dickinson to take a stand against ‘crash-for-cash’ scams following an incident with...
IFB : ten people involved and sentenced in Crash for Cash conspiracy
Ten people have been sentenced for a ‘crash for cash’ conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. Ringleader Ali Askher, 45, of Silverwood Road, Peterborough was...
IFB : Q2 statistics for ‘Crash for Cash’ hot spots released
With the IFB’s analytical software, 128 million insurance records were analysed to identify and produce the league table of regional hotspots for ‘crash for...
IFB : codename operation Exhort, a five year investigation
A five year investigation by Bedfordshire Police into a major insurance fraud by an organised criminal enterprise based in Luton has finally concluded with...
Car insurance : rise in ‘cash-for-crash’ frauds sees car insurance rocket by up to 50 per cent in a year
Figures reveal that annual renewal costs are at an all-time high. Industry experts blame the rise on an increase in fraud by ‘crash-for-cash’ opportunists...
Car insurance : Top tips for rental car businesses to avoid ‘crash for cash’ schemes
The Insurance Fraud Bureau has claimed that “crash for cash” schemes, in which car accidents are staged in order to claim on another...
Fradulent car crashes staged costs insurance companies £350 million every year
Fradulent car crashes staged by criminal gangs are costing insurance companies £350 million every year, it has been claimed.
"Crash for cash" cons are becoming...
Crash for cash could impact on innocent people
The rise in the number of crash for cash scams that are blighting insurers could mean those who have real accidents are treated with...
“Crash for cash” scammers earn an average of £16,000 per accident
"Crash for cash" scammers earn an average of £16,000 per "accident", according to the body set up to combat this type of fraud.
Richard Davies,...
