Fraud hotline receives 1,800 calls over insurance scams

THREE out of 10 calls to an insurance fraud hotline were about accidents that were either staged or never happened.

More than 1,800 new cases of reported insurance fraud have been received by the hotline, Insurance Confidential, since it was established by the Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) in February 2003.

The hotline was launched in a bid to cut the number of fraudulent claims in Ireland which cost the insurance industry approximately €100 million annually.