Hillsborough County Staged Accidents Decrease Significantly

Many Florida residents in Hillsborough County may be able to celebrate when they get their next auto insurance bill due to the fact that the crackdown on Personal Injury Protection (PIP) fraud has seemed to yield dramatic results for the better. Ok, it probably won’t have a noticeable affect...

February 15th, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

FL Senate Passes PIP Fraud Bill

The apparently broken personal injury protection (PIP) laws in Florida have often been a very hot topic for discussion, but the Florida Senate has now cleared a PIP Fraud Bill, SB 1860. According to the Insurance Journal, the Florida Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved the bill, which was...

February 6th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

FL Staged Accident Trio Arrested

Now a story from our neck of the woods; three Florida residents from Lee County have been arrested for their roles in a staged accident. According to Lee County Sheriff’s Office reports and ABC News, two of those arrestees were charged with filing a false report, while the third was charged with...

January 31st, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

Staged Accident Caught on Security Camera

With the way the economy is now, one type of insurance fraud is quickly becoming the most prevalent. It is a crash for cash kind of scam, where scam artists stage car crashes in order to obtain the insurance money. Through an investigation by CBS News, we can see the footage from a business’s security...

January 30th, 2012 | s, Staged Accidents | Read More

90% of Dade County PIP Clinics Probed Deemed to have “Irregularities”

Everyone should be able to assume that there are many decent clinics in Miami-Dade County that treat automobile accident victims. What you might not know however, is that state investigators are considering criminal charges after they found regulatory violations in almost 90% of the clinics that were...

January 11th, 2012 | 3, Insurance Fraud | Read More

Miami Mother-Daughter Duo Arrested for Role in Staged Accident Ring

Back in March, we brought you the story of 17 individuals from the Miami area that were involved in and arrested for their roles in the states largest-ever auto personal injury protection (PIP) insurance bust. Now, two more women have been arrested for their roles as well. According to the Sun Sentinel...

December 14th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

NC Man Convicted in $2.7M Workers’ Comp Scam

Back in June we brought you the story of an “insurance agent” who was arrested for workers’ compensation fraud. We say “insurance agent,” because he was not actually a real agent, but simply posing as one. According to a Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) news release and Florida...

December 1st, 2011 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

3 Tampa Residents Arrested for Insurance Fraud

Three employees from a Tampa rehabilitation company called Florida Rehabilitation Practice were arrested on November 22nd for soliciting accident victims and then submitting the fraudulent records of those patients to an insurance company. According to Department of Financial Services spokeswoman Alexis...

November 30th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Fraud Still Costing FL Drivers Millions

Florida drivers are still paying millions due to fraudulent claims despite the recent crackdown on crooked attorneys and fraudulent clinics by Florida law enforcement. According to the St. Petersburg Times, an industry report calculated that Florida drivers will be paying $658 million in premiums this...

November 22nd, 2011 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

FL Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Scam

On November 8th, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that a patient recruiter from a Miami health care agency has pled guilty for her part in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme. According to the press release, Beatriz Torres-Cruz,...

November 9th, 2011 | 2, Insurance Fraud | Read More

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