BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw will be guest speaker at an insurance industry event to highlight his campaign to shake up the sector.
The former Justice Secretary has become an outspoken critic of referral fees after it was found that insurers sell customer details on to other companies.
The Labour MP has been investigating the situation since the Lancashire Telegraph revealed the rising costs for residents across the area.
At the time, experts blamed it on gangs staging crashes to make insurance claims.
But Mr Straw said his research had revealed the motor insurance industry’s ‘dirty secret’ — that insurance companies themselves sell on clients’ details to personal injury firms for between £200 and £1,000 a time.
He will adress the annual Insurance Age’s Post’s Claims Event on October 12 in the Victoria Park Plaza, London.
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