Like many great things, the Global Insurance Fraud Summit began as one man’s idea. Following years of watching the world of insurance fraud evolve, anti-fraud leader, Dennis Toomey, envisioned a way for leading insurance fraud organizations from both the private and government sectors, to come together to share information on the latest trends in insurance fraud scams and efforts to combat fraud from across the globe.

Key strategic partners such as ALFA in France, the International Association of Special Investigators and U.S. anti-fraud organizations including the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud all agreed to support the Summit.

The first Global Insurance Fraud Summit was held in 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Sixteen nations participated in this first ever gathering of international anti-fraud leaders. Attendees vowed to support the Summit and gather again in the next year.

COVID-19 had other ideas, but even a worldwide pandemic could not stop the Global Insurance Fraud Summit. Virtual Summits were held in 2020 and 2021. The first virtual Summit occurred over 4 days with 40 speakers attended by more than 28 countries. 2021 saw even more growth with more than 848 attendees hearing the Summit’s opening keynote address where the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud released the largest study ever undertaken on the “Globalization of Insurance Fraud.”

In 2022 the Global Insurance Fraud Summit returned to its original in-person platform with a gathering of 15 nations in Lisbon, Portugal. The Global Insurance Fraud Summit is a working meeting – following two productive days of sessions stretching from dawn to dusk using lunch breaks as working sessions, the decision was made to expand the Summit to a three-day event.