Putting fraud on the map

With recent Association of British Insurer figures showing bogus and inflated insurance claims cost more than £1.5bn a year, insurers are seeking more robust ways to tackle fraud. Gavin Lewis outlines the growing role location analysis is playing

It is more than 150 years since a contaminated water pump was identified as the source of a major cholera outbreak in London. In 1854, Dr John Snow confirmed the cause by plotting the locations of