Certificate in Fraud Detection and Prevention for the Insurance Industry
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Certificate in Fraud Detection and Prevention for the Insurance Industry | 16 Nov 2025 | 20 Nov 2025 | Live-Online | $ 2,500 | Register |

Certificate in Fraud Detection and Prevention for the Insurance Industry
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Certificate in Fraud Detection and Prevention for the Insurance Industry | 16 Nov 2025 | 20 Nov 2025 | Live-Online | $ 2,500 |
Introduction
This course covers how to prevent fraud from happening, how to detect fraud, the tools to investigate fraud, and how to gather a case for prosecution. This course gives professionals working in the insurance industry the ability to protect their organization from internal fraudulent activity such as Agent/Broker premium diversion, re-insurance fraud, and rented asset schemes. It also covers external fraud activities such as fake insurance companies, offshore/unlicensed internet companies, staged auto accidents, vertical and senior settlement fraud.
Objectives
- Define the role of ethics in insurance fraud prevention
- Distinguish the nature and types of insurance fraud
- Set up fraud prevention methods for the organization
- Identify and implement anti-fraud measures and manage fraud risks
- Investigate and form a legal case to prosecute suspected fraudsters
Upon the successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for all levels of auditors, investigators, and prosecutors working in the insurance fraud arena. Any professional looking to expand their knowledge of insurance fraud detection and prevention would also benefit from this course.
Target Competencies
- Auditing
- Preventing insurance fraud
- Detecting insurance fraud
- Implementing anti-fraud measures
- Investigating fraud
Course Outline
Day 1: Governance and Ethics in Insurance
- Defining ethics
- Ethics in the workplace
- Conflicts of interest
- Fraud
- Racism
- Other misconduct
- Conducting ethics investigations
- Skills and approaches of the ethics investigator
- Moral hazard in insurance
- Adverse selection
Day 2: Fighting Fraud Types
- Core foundation: basic concepts of fraud, anti-fraud mindset
- Life insurance fraud
- Health insurance fraud
- Auto insurance fraud
- Property insurance fraud
- Reporting insurance fraud
- The role of the fraud investigator
- Internal audit’s role in preventing fraud
Day 3: The Broker’s Perspective
- Types of fraud
- The broker’s role
- Anti-fraud measures
- In house anti-fraud units
- Software alerts
- Databases facilitating sharing of claims information (e.g., CUE, MIAFTR, MID, CIFAS)
- Cognitive interviewing techniques
- Lie detectors/voice stress analysis
- Aerial photography and mapping
- Managing broker fraud risks
- Broker response to fraud
Day 4: Fraud Investigations
- Tasks of the fraud investigator
- Setting the standards
- Reviewing controls
- Searching for corroborating evidence
- Spotting fraudulent claims
- Theoretical and legal issues pertaining to fraud investigations
- Multi-disciplinary approach to fraud investigations
- General legal issues
Day 5: Criminal Investigations
- Principles of criminal investigation
- Collecting and systemizing evidence
- Forming statements
- Interviewing and interrogation
- Polygraph and statement analysis
- Criminology/legal issues
- Investigative techniques