A scammer jailed for making false home insurance claims about supposedly stolen Lego has been listed as one of last year’s most high-profile insurance fraudsters.<\/p>\n
The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, insurance trade body the ABI said.<\/p>\n
Other insurance fraud cases flagged by the ABI include someone who staged car crashes with people they met online and a complex travel insurance scam involving multiple fake identities and documents.<\/p>\n
The average value of a fraudulent claim reached \u00a314,300 last year, the second-highest level on record, the ABI said.<\/p>\n
There was \u00a31.34bn worth of fraudulent claims in 2025, a 14% increase on the \u00a31.18bn detected the previous year.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the number of detected fraudulent claims fell slightly to 93,900, down 2.7% on 2024.<\/p>\n
Mark Allen, head of fraud and financial crime at the ABI, said: “Although the rate of detected insurance fraud fell slightly last year, our data shows that fraudsters are\u202ftargeting much bigger payouts.<\/p>\n
“As emerging technologies such as AI become more widely available, fraudsters will continue to look for new ways to exploit them.”<\/p>\n
Det Ch Insp Simon Klust, head of the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) at the City of London Police, said: “Insurance fraud is not a victimless crime and those who commit it increase the cost of premiums for honest customers.”<\/p>\n
He added that the 250 cases a day detected by the ABI last year were “unfortunately likely to be just the tip of the iceberg”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scammer jailed for making false home insurance claims about supposedly stolen Lego has been listed as one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}