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Collusion Between Claimants Does Not Pay

Collusion Between Claimants Does Not Pay

Natalie Hilton of AXA Insurance UK and Kellie Maguire of DAC Beachcroft’s Casualty Fraud team secured discontinuances demonstrating that collusion doe ...

Four month prison sentence for claimant who attempted to defraud the NHS of almost £500,000

Four month prison sentence for claimant who attempted to defraud the NHS of almost £500,000

Margarita Twist-Wilson has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 4 months imprisonment for her deliberate attempt to defraud the NHS ...

Fraud Future Series: Casualty Fraud

Fraud Future Series: Casualty Fraud

Welcome to the third instalment of the DACB Fraud Future Series, where we continue our appraisal of predictions made prior to the Whiplash Reforms, us ...

Suspended sentence for former employee who lied in court

Suspended sentence for former employee who lied in court

Paravash Kiani a former travel agent who claimed she had been injured by a colleague who ‘stabbed’ her hand with a pen at work, has been sentenced to ...

Discontinuance Secured Following Personal Injury Claim

Discontinuance Secured Following Personal Injury Claim

NFU Mutual Insurance and DAC Beachcroft’s Casualty Fraud experts, working with their respective Complex Injury experts, have successfully secured a di ...

Claimant loses a potential half a million pound claim due to his fundamental dishonesty

Claimant loses a potential half a million pound claim due to his fundamental dishonesty

A soldier discharged from the army following a minor car accident loses a potential £0.5million claim due to his fundamental dishonesty.

Claimant ordered to pay £10,085 following fundamental dishonesty finding at Trial heard virtually

Claimant ordered to pay £10,085 following fundamental dishonesty finding at Trial heard virtually

  A Claimant who alleged that he suffered a back injury whilst attempting to undertake a torque test as part of his employment has been ordered to pay ...

Fundamental Dishonesty: Cut and Dried!

Fundamental Dishonesty: Cut and Dried!

Zurich and DAC Beachcroft’s Casualty Fraud Team have thwarted a suspected organised casualty fraud securing a finding of fundamental dishonesty agains ...

Fraudsters who fell down open manhole face prison after DAC Beachcroft’s Counter Fraud team secure contempt of court ruling

Fraudsters who fell down open manhole face prison after DAC Beachcroft’s Counter Fraud team secure contempt of court ruling

Two insurance fraudsters have been found guilty of contempt of court and will receive a prison sentence following an alleged injury falling down an 18 ...

You’ve been warned! – changes to statements of truth bolster the fight against fraud

You’ve been warned! – changes to statements of truth bolster the fight against fraud

On the 6th April 2020 the 113th update to the Practice Directions (PD) within the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) comes into force.  While such changes ar ...