Accident Exchange: four insurers at the centre of Autofocus action
Accident Exchange today said that the early indications are that “four large and well known insurers and two firms of defendant solicitors” account for the most material number of cases impacted by what it claims is a “systematic production of fraudulently submitted hire rate data” by Autofocus.
It added discussions with those insurers about whether they wish to incur the incremental cost of re-opening those cases will be initiated shortly.
In a statement Accident Exchange said it had also
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