UK INSURERS LAUNCH FRAUDSTER BLACKLIST
September 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCATION of British Insurers (ABI) has launched a blacklist of alleged "known fraudsters", making this information available to insurance companies via a "secure protocol", it said. The system will be run by the UK's Insurance Fraud Bureau, a not-for-profit organisation owned by British insurers that investigates insurance scams. The ABI launched its initiative as it released figures claiming GBPounds GBP 983 million was lost to insurance fraudsters in Britain during 2011, with an average of 2,670 fraudulent insurance ...
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