Your say: Throw out partially false claims
Zurich is to be congratulated on fighting the good fraud fight through the Supreme Court and achieving a successful outcome in the case of Fairclough Homes v Summers, says John Freeman.
Fraud investigation is an inherently risky business with no guaranteed outcomes, as the Summers case and, dare I say, past rulings by the Financial Ombudsman Service demonstrate.
I'm delighted that the
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