Plans to raise the maximum value of personal injury claims such as holiday sickness in the small claims court have been delayed for a year. The government’s change of stance means that rules that were scheduled to come into effect in April 2019 will now be implemented in April 2020. From then, personal injury claims […]
Month: July 2018
Agents warned of airline ticketing scam
Travel agents have been warned of an airline ticketing scam that has forced at least one business to close and fleeced the industry out of millions of pounds. Industry body Prevention Of Fraud in Travel (Profit) said 54 agencies had fallen victim to what is being termed ‘corporate referral fraud’. Fraudsters posing as international employees […]
Thomas Cook admits data breach
Thomas Cook has suffered a data breach which exposed the names, email addresses, and flight details of customers. Blogger Roy Solberg, a Norwegian security researcher accessed the customer data through vulnerabilities, which he has since reported, according to Sky News. Thomas Cook said the gaps in its security have since been plugged. It said Solberg […]
Travel cyber risks rising exponentially
Cyber resilience has become “fundamental” to travel, but there is insufficient perception of the risks according to a leading specialist in disaster management. Professor Lee Miles of Bournemouth University’s Disaster Management Centre in the UK told the Resilience Through Tourism Summit in Jordan in June: “Risk is rising exponentially. “Cybersecurity is becoming more and more […]
Be wary of approaches from unscrupulous claims firms
Holidaymakers are being urged to be wary of approaches from individuals or companies encouraging them to submit exaggerated or false holiday sickness claims. ABTA issued a warning after research found that 70% of Brits don’t realise that making a false claim for holiday sickness could result in a prison sentence in the UK or abroad […]
Sickness claim costs
A fixed recoverable costs regime which has been extended to gastric illness claims made abroad will not be applied to all personal injury claims relating to package holidays, a government report has concluded. The Ministry of Justice today published the findings of a call for evidence into how to handle personal injury claims related to […]
Online airline ticket fraudsters arrested
Law enforcement agencies have arrested 141 people during a Europol-backed crackdown on internet airline fraud ticket. During the four-day effort, which took place over last weekend, the eleventh Global Airport Action Days (GAAD) initiative targeted criminals suspected of traveling with airline tickets bought using stolen, compromised or fake credit card details. The operation resulted in […]