2019 Insurance Fraud Awards: Full list of winners
Zurich was the big winner at the 2019 Post Insurance Fraud Awards picking up three awards, and a highly commended including top prize in the Investigation of the Year category.
DWF picked up the Fraud Investigation Team of the Year, meanwhile its partner James Pinder was handed the Achievement Award.
Addressing the 500 guests at The Brewery, host Stephen K Amos paid tribute to Pinder saying: “One of the first insurance lawyers in the industry to have specialised in fraud, our winner has been instrumental in establishing two notable specialist fraud legal departments - first at Silverbeck Rymer and then Ricksons/DWF.
“As a result they have been involved in many significant and landmark cases including Khan v Hughes and Khan et al v Hussain and the MIB.
“Outside of his day job the achievement winner helped set up the successful NW Fraud Forum, in collaboration with the late Richard Davies; provided advice to and acted as secretary of Insurance Fraud Investigators’ Group; and was a committee member of Insurance Fraud Taskforce where he was instrumental in its recommendations to government.”
Full shortlist with winners
Combating fraud - improving public knowledge award
Winner: Zurich Insurance - Zurlock’s Big Fraud Awareness Campaign
Shorlisted:
BLM – The Counter Fraud Revolution
Allianz Insurance and Crawford & Company Property Know Your Opponent - Loss Assessors as Professional Enablers and Facilitators of Organised Fraud
DWF Law – Migration of Fraud to Scotland
Combating fraud - technology innovation of the year
Winner: Aviva
Shortlisted:
Axa Hong Kong
Direct Line Group & Verisk
Hastings Direct and BAE Systems
LV
Synectics Solutions
VisionTrack
Combatting fraud - collaboration of the year
Winner: LV and Keoghs
Highly commended: Axa Insurance & DAC Beachcroft
Shortlisted:
Admiral Insurance and Clyde & Co
Aviva and DWF Law
Axa Insurance & Kennedys Law
Direct Line Group and Verisk
Go Compare and Featurespace
Pen Underwriting and Mills & Reeve
Counter Fraud Team of the year - Commercial lines team of the year
Winner: Allianz Insurance - Fraud and Major Loss Team
Shortlisted:
Allianz Insurance - Application Fraud Team
Axa Insurance - Casualty Claims Team
Zurich Insurance
Cyber Team of the Year
Winner: LV
Cyber Partner of the Year
Winner: Sedgwick International UK Cyber Fraud Team
Fraud Intelligence Team of the Year
Winner: Esure - Insight Intelligence Team
Highly commended: Zurich Insurance - Intelligence Team
Shortlisted:
BLM - Intelligence Team
Direct Line Group
DWF Law
Keoghs
Fraud Investigation Team - Independent
Winner: DWF Law
Highly commended: Keoghs - Healthcare Enabled Fraud team
Shortlisted:
BLM - Fraud Intervention and Disruption Legal Services
Charles Taylor - CEGA Special Investigations
Clyde & Co
Robertson & Co - Complex Fraud Team
Sedgwick International UK
The Richard Davies Memorial Award for the Unsung Insurance fraud Fighter of the Year
Winner: Elaine Stewart – Aviva
Highly commended: Jerome Maynard - AA Insurance Services
Shortlisted:
Tracey Cranston – Aviva
Phil Day – LV
Alison Francis - ERS
Mick Griffin - Robertson & Co
Young Fraud Investigator of the Year
Winner: Bethan Wright - Zurich Insurance
Highly commended: Lisa Emery - LV
Alex Hannington – Go Compare
Philip Melia - Horwich Farrelly Solicitors
Charlotte Walton - Aviva
Fraud Investigation of the Year
Winner: Zurich Insurance
Highly commended: Aviva UK Insurance
First Central
Axa Insurance For Operations Seastars
Axa Insurance – Asons’ employer’s liability claim
Esure
The Achievement Award
DWF partner James Pinder
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