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Fraudulent insurance claims that didn’t succeed

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on March 28, 2012 – 12:32 pm

OTC Insurance, a Nova Scotia auto insurance broker, talks about some wacky Canadian insurance claims. These are just too good to resist posting. Periodically, different insurers and organizations post stories about fraudulent claims that people (try to) make. Just a few days ago, the Insurance Bureau of Canada posted some doozies. Here are a couple of the [...]



Social media helping to catch fraudsters

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on February 7, 2012 – 4:45 pm

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker in Nova Scotia, talks about how social media is helping to identify fraudulent claims Social media has had a profound effect on people’s lives. One way it is affecting the world of insurance has to do with claims, more specifically, fraudulent claims. There have been numerous instances where people have been [...]



Top five auto frauds

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on January 17, 2012 – 4:51 pm

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in Halifax provides a run down of some of the top five frauds reported by Manitoba Public Insurance. Every year, Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), the non-profit crown corporation which provides basic auto insurance in Manitoba, releases a list of the top five frauds of the year. Here’s a look [...]



Workplace fraud costs small and medium Canadian enterprises $3.2 billion annually

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on December 7, 2011 – 9:59 pm

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker providing service in Nova Scotia, tells you about a new report which talks about the enormous cost workplace fraud is having in Canada The numbers aren’t pretty. According to new research by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA-Canada), the cost of workplace fraud on small and medium enterprises [...]