'People should not have to absorb insurance fraud costs into their premiums'

According to the CSO, there were 98 insurance fraud cases recorded by An Garda Síochána in 2022, compared to 18,453 personal injury claims in the same year. 

Making a false insurance claim should become as socially unacceptable as smoking indoors, advocates have said, after a “significant new protocol” aimed at clamping down on fraud was signed on Tuesday.

Signed by An Garda Síochána, Insurance Ireland, and the Alliance for Insurance Reform, the memorandum of understanding sets out the process for reporting suspected insurance fraud and aims to ensure a coordinated and consistent approach to assessing and investigating suspected frauds.