Insurance fraud 'opportunistic'

The most common insurance fraudsters are otherwise honest people indulging in opportunistic low-value crime, according to new research.

Professor Mark Button, of the University of Portsmouth, has examined 40,000 claims handled by fraud investigators and found that the typical profile of a false claimant was someone aged between 31 and 50 who had never before made a dishonest insurance claim.%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%