UK Insurance News

Motorists who drive in the UK with no insurance are getting away with murder – quite literally, as evidence suggests that uninsured drivers are five times more likely to have an accident and are responsible for around 160 deaths on the road each year.
And yet when charged for ‘driving without insurance’,  under new government proposals, [...]

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Two female UK law graduates who are accused of insurance fraud in Brazil, have been given bail following media reports about the squalid cell that they were being kept in.
Shanti Andrews and Rebecca Turner, both 23 years old had been told they would have stay in the cell in Rio de Janeiro until their case [...]

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Are we getting clumsier in the UK? Or is it that we now own so much hi tech equipment that insurance claims are bound to increase. Or maybe there is an element of insurance fraud in the following findings in a report from John Lewis Partnership’s Home insurance business Greenbee.
The report says that home insurance [...]

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A man who claimed to have been injured when a coach carrying himself and guests crashed on the way to his wedding, was found guilty of attempted insurance fraud in Manchester Crown Court.
The bridegroom Andrew Singh  was sentenced to twelve months, along with parents Graham Singh and Niramella Singh. The family had made the claim [...]

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UK insurer MORE TH>N say that despite the media coverage relating to the ‘crash for cash’ scam, 41% of motorists have never heard of this form of gang crime.
While co-ordinated efforts by the police and insurance companies have seen a drop of 11% in incidents of the scam over the last two years, MORE TH>N [...]

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