A Briton who cost the insurance industry some £1.6m by deliberately causing almost 100 car crashes as part of a scam to win fraudulent payouts was jailed for four and a half years on Wednesday. Mohammed Patel, 24, charged £500 a time to stage accidents which enabled fraudsters to claim from their insurers. Police said [...]

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On Thursday evening I had an interesting request for advice from a friend. One of his workers damaged his vehicle in a car accident. The vehicle is insured in the name of the dad but the son was driving the vehicle. The insurance company now refuses to make payment on this claim as the driver [...]

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