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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.<\/b><\/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 were \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<\/div>\n