QuestGates launches new real estate claims service
QuestGates has launched a new real estate claims service designed to provide a bespoke service for property investors and their property managers across the UK and Ireland. As part of the service the...
View ArticleEx-RSA employee handed jail sentence for £280,000 insurance fraud
An ex-RSA employee has been sentenced to three years and four months imprisonment for making 82 fraudulent claim payments into his accomplice’s bank account worth almost £280,000. Kevin Macey, 49, of...
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Bush & Company expansion brings specialist services to seriously injured...
Bush & Company is setting up a catastrophic injuries specialist service in Scotland. The company, which carries out specialist medico-legal and rehabilitation expertise to insurance companies and...
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Express Solicitors group increases turnover to £16.75 million
Express Solicitors has had its best ever financial results for the second year in a row, with year-end figures increasing 12% from £12.3 million in 2016 to £13.75 million in 2017. With its sister...
View ArticleCargo theft accounts for a tenth of claims in the last decade for transport...
TT Club, the specialist transport and logistics insurer, has said that cargo theft has accounted for a tenth of claims that it has dealt with in the last decade. Writing on the insurer’s website, Mike...
View ArticlePPI claims company fined £350,000 by ICO for making a record 146 million...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a PPI claims management company £350,000 for making a record 146 million nuisance calls. The ICO said that Your Money Rights left people feeling...
View ArticleCar insurance premiums have risen five times faster than inflation in the...
Car insurance bills are rising five times faster than inflation, but the Government’s proposals to increase the Discount Rate have helped stabilise prices, according to Consumer Intelligence. The...
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Increase in rogue drainage repair companies is leaving property claimants...
An increase in rogue traders carrying out unethical drainage repairs is leaving many property claimants with major costs that they cannot claim back from their insurers. DASA, the drainage repair and...
View ArticleHolidaymakers aged 50 and above are making nearly half of all leisure travel...
Holidaymakers aged 50 and above are making nearly half of all leisure travel claims according to research from CEGA. The travel claims, risk management and global assistance company has found that 46%...
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New head of medical negligence serious injury for Fletchers
Fletchers Solicitors, has appointed Peter Rigby as its new head of medical negligence serious injury. Rigby joined the Southport-based firm in 2010 after working at Keoghs and completing the Bar...
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ARAG flying high as it adds four new members to ATE team
Legal expenses and assistance provider ARAG has expanded its after-the-event (ATE) insurance operation with four new appointments. Jonathan Bassey (pictured below) has joined the company as an account...
View ArticleClaims and Underwriting Exchange expands to accept travel insurance claims
The Claims and Underwriting Exchange (CUE) has been expanded to accept data relating to travel insurance claims. CUE’s new platform, CUE Travel, is the first central database of the industry’s claims...
View ArticleMPs Bob Neill and Alberto Costa to join Access to Justice and AXA at...
Two MPs – Bob Neill and Alberto Costa – are to address a fringe meeting that will look at personal injury claim reforms during the Conservative party’s conference next week in Manchester. Neill, the...
View ArticleHorwich Farrelly promotes credit hire specialist behind the landmark case of...
Horwich Farrelly has promoted credit hire specialist Gary Herring from associate to partner. A specialist in credit hire claims for over ten years and widely regarded as a market leader for strategic...
View ArticleNegative reputation of insurance claims found to be undeserved
The public’s general negative perception of claims is undeserved, according to new research. Insurance claims review website Claims Rated has questioned a thousand people online from across England,...
View ArticleBirmingham is the UK’s number one crash-for-cash hotspot
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has said that Birmingham has the highest levels of crash-for-cash activity in the UK. The UK’s second biggest city has secured the number one crash-for-cash hotspot...
View ArticlePersonal injury market expected to grow by 1.6% between 2017 and 2021
The personal injury market is set to grow by 1.6% between 2017 and 2021, according to IRN Research. The agency has said that the sector will grow modestly in value terms between 2017 to 2018 but it...
View ArticleExchange Chambers’ Chris Gutteridge secures two significant settlements in...
Chris Gutteridge from Exchange Chambers has secured significant recent settlements for two claimants after being instructed by Thompsons Solicitors. The first case involved a boy, now 10, who suffered...
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Keoghs buys out Hill Dickinson’s insurance business division
Keoghs has acquired Hill Dickinson’s insurance business group. The deal will see 16 Hill Dickinson partners and 400 other fee earners and business services staff based in Liverpool, London and...
View ArticleTesco claims director joins AGL board as non-executive director
Activate Group Limited (AGL), the insurer solutions, fleet and risk management provider has announced that Paul Pancham, the current claims director at Tesco Underwriting, is joining the company as a...
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