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Analysis: Telematics - telling it as it is?

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Fabricating a motor insurance claim used to be as simple as arranging for a mate to drive into your car but with today's new technology, Veronica Cowen explains how much harder insurers are making it for the fraudsters.

Dodgy motor insurance claims are not new, but whereas the owner of an old banger might previously have dumped it in a lay-by, set fire to it, and claimed for a replacement, today’s crooks might set up

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