Penny Black's Insurance Week - 25 July 2013
Preventing a breach of data is high on the agenda for most companies in the insurance industry, but it seems London’s cabbies are the real protectors of sensitive information.
As Penny tucked into a Fred Flinstone-esque meat platter with some of her fraud investigation friends at Absolute Partnership this week, the meal was interrupted by an out-of-puff taxi driver
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