Making a splash
Roger Knight reports on the measures the insurance industry took to clamp down on those trying to defraud the system after the UK floods of 2007.
When you are up to your knees in alligators, it is hard to remember that the objective was to drain the swamp - or so the saying goes. The analogy was never more appropriate than in the summer of 2007
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