Thursday, September 30th, 2010 — Insurance cheats stand a greater chance of being identified, and truth-tellers vindicated, as a result of new research into detecting lies. Dr Sharon Leal, a research fellow at the University of Portsmouth and an expert in detecting deception, has recently embarked on a £112,000 study, funded by a leading insurance fraud investigation firm, to establish "ground truth" about how liars behave when making claims.