Insurance fraud ‘may be biggest to hit industry in 20 years’

A MASSIVE public liability insurance fraud in the North, which has left victims with a potential uninsured risk of €1.4 billion, is being investigated by police.

More than 1,400 small businesses, organisations and individuals may have been stung by the scam, said the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The Serious Fraud Office, supported by the PSNI Fraud Unit, has begun a criminal investigation.