“Operation Crash Clinic” Results in 15 Arrests; 3 Clinics Shutdown

Numerous Florida residents from the Miami area have been arrested for taking part in “Operation Crash Clinic,” which is one of many similar insurance fraud scams that is partly responsible for Florida’s high car insurance premiums. According to CBS News, a news conference was held on April 26th...

April 27th, 2012 | 1, Rings & Mills | Read More

FL Insurance Scammer Sentenced to Five Years for False Imprisonment

What do a shooting, a kidnapping and an auto insurance scam have in common? Apparently, Yasmani Marquez; who has just earned himself five years in prison. Marquez, 24, will serve those five years behind bars for the false imprisonment of a fellow scammer. According to The Miami Herald, Marquez, who has...

April 26th, 2012 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

CA Brings Down 22-Person Fraud Ring

The Contra Costa County district attorney’s office charged almost two dozen people for staged collisions and insurance fraud on April 17th. According to the San Ramon Express, the indictment alleges over $500,000 in losses. On April 17th, District Attorney Mark Peterson charged the scheme’s...

April 19th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

New York Fraud Scams Taking Deadly Turn

Numerous staged accidents take place all across the country every month, several of which are happening in New York. While often the actors stage their crashes with their co-conspirators, however, several involve crashes where accident victims don’t even know they’re being used as a prop in a crime....

April 3rd, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

FL Staged Accident Ring Uses Food Trucks, Leads to 15 Arrests

Fifteen Floridians have been arrested and accused of staging accidents in food trucks and allegedly filing over $800,000 in fraudulent property damage and Personal Injury Protection (PIP) claims. According to the press release from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater’s office, the arrests...

March 28th, 2012 | Staged Accidents, s | Read More

16 Arrested for Staged Accidents in NY

It seems that staged accidents and no-fault insurance laws go hand in hand. Sixteen more people were arrested in New York, a state with No-Fault Laws, for their alleged roles in staging accidents acting as drivers and passengers. According to The Wall Street Journal and State Attorney General Eric...

March 7th, 2012 | 4, Insurance Fraud | Read More

FL Gov. Rick Scott Stages Crashes for On-lookers

Florida Governor Rick Scott has always been an advocate for penalizing the people who stage car crashes for insurance fraud purposes. Recently however, he was staging crashes of his own; but only to show people the need for reform and what to look for. According to Bay News 9, Scott is hoping that proposed...

February 21st, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

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 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 | Staged Accidents, s | Read More

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