Haywards Heath insurance firm shops abusive customer to the police

12:44pm Monday 1st October 2012 in News

A Sussex insurance company is warning people who lie on their applications for policies that they will pass their details to police.

Haywards Heath firm 1st Central contacted the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) over a London man’s application for car insurance.

He had failed to disclose driving offences and accidents – and later became abusive towards the company’s staff.

The 51-year-old was arrested in July and was given a community order at City of London Magistrates’ Court this week.

Glen Marr, the director of fraud at 1st Central, said: “Our message and commitment to fraudsters is very clear; we will detect you and there will be repercussions for your dishonesty, which could have far-reaching personal impact.

“We will continue to refer instances of insurance fraud to IFED and we look forward to many more cases being brought before the courts.”

Comments(10)

Lofaplace says...
2:29pm Mon 1 Oct 12

I think you can also look forward to decreasing phone calls of all sorts.

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Fight_Back says...
4:24pm Mon 1 Oct 12

People might be less inclined to try and con insurance companies if they didn't actually rip people off !!!!

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Crystal Ball says...
4:37pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Fight_Back wrote:
People might be less inclined to try and con insurance companies if they didn't actually rip people off !!!!
Are you condoning fraud and lies?

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Fight_Back says...
4:52pm Mon 1 Oct 12

No, not at all BUT have you ever tried to make a claim with an insurance company - they try and wiggle out of it any way they can.

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Crystal Ball says...
4:58pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Fight_Back wrote:
No, not at all BUT have you ever tried to make a claim with an insurance company - they try and wiggle out of it any way they can.
Fair point.

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Maxwell's Ghost says...
9:16pm Mon 1 Oct 12

While I don't condone fraud, I am currently reporting a well known insurance company to the Insurance Ombudsman for blatant misleading information in its correspondence.
Misleading or lies, let's see what the ombudsman says.

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Falmer Wizard says...
11:50pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Could have a far reaching impact like a
COMMUNITY ORDER !!!!!!!
Yeah

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MuammarQaddafi says...
8:25am Tue 2 Oct 12

So, when we deceive companies it's criminal fraud, but when they deceive us it's legitimate and 'businesslike.' Nice work if you can get it.

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Tailgaters Anonymous says...
8:42am Tue 2 Oct 12

Why should this be news? Any application for insurance is 'uberrimae fidei' - of the utmost good faith - and someone failing to disclose relevant facts is committing fraud.
Perhaps this insurance company has not achieved the correct standard in earlier times and only now discovered what it should be doing!

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F in L says...
1:41pm Tue 2 Oct 12

Would not touch them with a Barge Pole

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