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18 killed in Shandong fire
A huge food plant fire killed 18 people and injured 13 others in Shandong yesterday evening.
Fidelity halves Quindell stake to less than 5%
Quindell investor Fidelity has halved its stake in the company and now holds a 4.9% interest.
G4S ready for PI regulation as 250 staff obtain minimum standard qualification
G4S Investigation Solutions managing director Matthew Cantle is confident staff at his operation will be ready to meet the regulatory requirements for private investigators by April next year.
Marsh claims executive Croll joins Cunningham Lindsey
Cunningham Lindsey has hired Marsh claims executive Brian Croll as a customer service consultant based in Glasgow.
Court orders for £48,975 to be confiscated from Yorkshire ghost broker
The Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department has today had £48,975 confiscated from a ghost broker jailed in July for selling invalid car insurance to more than 100 motorists in the Bradford and Leeds areas of Yorkshire.
Legal Ombudsman to hear CMC complaints
The Legal Ombudsman is to offer consumers a free route of redress if they have a complaint about a regulated claims management company.
Environment Agency awards £300m flood risk contract
The Environment Agency has awarded a £300m flood risk management contract aimed at protecting £200bn of property to engineering company CH2M Hill.
Duplication inflating Claims Portal figures
The Claims Portal has warned that duplication is inflating the total number of claims registered with the claims portal, but cautioned it is unable to estimate the scale of the problem.
Charles Taylor unhampered by large claims drought
Charles Taylor has reported performance in line with expectations, in spite of a drop off in numbers of large commercial losses.
Rolling Stones in legal battle over cancelled Australia concerts
The Rolling Stones are in a legal battle over a payout in lost earnings for their cancelled tour dates in Australia and New Zealand.
Personal injury claims on the up in motor as hearing loss claims rise too
Analysts predicting full year squeeze on profitability after Q3 results
Bus crash fraudsters sentenced in £500,000 QBE claim attempt
Two crash-for-cash fraudsters that "meticulously planned" an attempt to claim £500,000 from QBE were sentenced today in the Manchester Crown Court.
Specialist ABS launches for clients with spinal cord injuries
A new legal Alternative Business Structure has been created by a partnership between national spinal injury charity Aspire, and personal injury firm Moore Blatch solicitors.
Fraud Focus: What will the next fight be?
As the industry tackles motor fraud, where will fraudsters turn their attention to next?
Zoos: The nature of the beast
The death of a man who entered a tiger enclosure at a Delhi zoo made global headlines in September, but has the tragedy had an impact on the wider zoo insurance sector – and how can the industry protect itself from such incidents?
In Series: Personal Injury: Is the tide turning?
While insurers are hopeful recent reforms have signalled a sea change in personal injury, making it more difficult to succeed with fraudulent claims, claimaint lawyers say genuine claimants will suffer. So who’s right?
C-Suite: Insurer: All that glitters is not gold
Brokers should not lose sight of what they do best in search of a ‘bigger piece of the pie’
Carpenters Solicitors acquires Sussex firm
Carpenters Solicitors has acquired Sussex-based claimant, defendant and costs solicitors DB Legal.
Quindell attempts to shore up tumbling share price with director buys
Quindell CEO Robert Fielding is the latest of the company's directors to boost their shareholding in the business, purchasing nearly 23,000 shares.
ABI deems Medco software critical in whiplash fraud fight
The Association of British Insurers has deemed the development of an IT system designed to randomly allocate medical experts for soft tissue injury claims as critical in the reform of the medic-legal reporting system.
Mass slams government for endorsing 'compensation culture' claims
The new chair of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society has dismissed the notion of a compensation culture in the UK urging members of the organisation to fight to preserve the current system.
Blog: Lessons from past marine claims
Professor James F Lygate of IFIC Forensics takes a look back at maritime disasters of the past to learn lessons for the future
Q&A video: Crif Decision Solutions director Sara Costantini
Personal injury claims have been in the spotlight recently because they are one of the key areas to have been targeted by fraudsters.
71% of people say insurers use of social media unfair to check claims
Only 29% of insurance customers think it is fair for insurance companies to use social media posts to check the validity of claims, research from Consumer Intelligence shows.