TITLE

Companies being defrauded by billions of dollars

PUB. DATE
January 1996
SOURCE
International Insurance Monitor;1996 1st Quarter, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p15
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on European insurance companies' efforts to combat fraud. Losses in motor insurance in Great Britain and France; Staff training measures implemented in Germany; Spain's forming of a working group to study the fraud problem.
ACCESSION #
9610084559

Tags: INSURANCE crimes;  INSURANCE companies

 

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