Is fraud detection the only funding certainty in insurance?
Content Director’s View: Another year, another raft of insurers highlighting record fraud detections and savings. Jonathan Swift reflects on this and asks whether the industry is close to a tipping point when it comes to continued improvements in preventing and uncovering these crimes.
In the same way that Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella in the film Field of Dreams was told: “If you build it, he will come”, it seems that in the world of fraud, the more insurance industry builds and
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