Auto insurance fraud impacted by catalyst of staged collisions

July 22, 2014July 19, 2014 H. Cutner

Organized scam rings are already costing the industry millions and are placing innocent people in harm’s way. According to investigators, auto insurance fraud is becoming more frequent as well as more sophisticated, as they are now involving organized groups as opposed to individuals or a small handful of people. Today’s insurance scams involve faked crashes with involvement of medical clinics and other professionals. This allows the collisions to occur, the claims to be made, and phony treatments to be administered in order to generate lucrative payouts for those involved. The…

Auto insurance scams in New York shut down with doctor claims suspensions

November 6, 2013November 4, 2013 Julie Campbell

A number of “dirty” docs are now being pursued by the state regarding accidents that never happened. New York is now going after twelve doctors that signed off on auto insurance claims for accidents that never occurred, in order to allow their “patients”, and themselves, to collect millions in payments from the no-fault system in the state. Notices went out to the dozen physicians as well as six additional health providers. Those notices have barred them from being able to submit auto insurance claims on the no-fault system in New…

Auto insurance fraud rising most quickly in Minnesota

January 28, 2013April 30, 2013

The state is now leading the country in organized scams to the vehicle coverage industry. An auto insurance news report was just issued by the Insurance Federation of Minnesota, which made a call to legislators, prosecutors, and regulators to increase their efforts to crack down on the fraud that is occurring within the industry in this state. This request is to boost the efforts that these officials have already been making for this purpose. There is already a crackdown in place to help to stop the no-fault auto insurance fraud…