GPs increasingly aiding insurance fraud

City of London police said medical staff were being targeted by organised crime groups to expand their operations and increase the fraud threat to the insurance industry. The revelation of GPs' growing involvement may further strain relations between insurers and practitioners after recent conflicts over supplying medical data for underwriting and issues within the private healthcare market. Officers pledged to use the new Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), launched in tandem with the ABI, to crackdown on large scale deceptions involving those enabling professions. They...