The redundancies came after The Amulet Group, The Accident Group's parent company, called in administrators.
Today, employees at The Accident Group, which in the past has been accused of aggressive selling methods, were told of their fate by a text message with a number to ring at head office.
An answer machine message from administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers said: "All staff who are being retained will be contacted today. If you have not been spoken to you are therefore being made redundant with immediate effect."
It added: "Unfortunately there are effectively no funds available to pay the salaries for May."
Staff have been told to make claims for arrears of pay, outstanding holiday pay, pay in lieu of notice and redundancy pay to the DTI.
Other companies in the group are Accident Investigations Limited and Claims Support Services Limited, which provide ancillary services, and First Advice Limited, which provides financial services and products.
Amulet's company statement described the job losses as a "tragedy". "Continual battles with the insurance industry and the sudden failure of a banking partner to support the company has meant that the company is forced to cease trading," it said.
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