March 23, 2015
Minnesota and Michigan both are confronting significant problems with scammers defrauding auto-insurance systems they perceive have relatively soft defenses. Minnesota faces a surge in organized fraud rings that fleece auto insurers with large and fake injury claims. The state needs …
March 10, 2015
Minnesota and Michigan both are confronting significant problems with scammers defrauding auto insurance systems they perceive have relatively soft defenses. Minnesota faces a surge in organized fraud rings that fleece auto insurers with large and fake injury claims. The state …
April 23, 2010
Fraud bills are blooming like azalea bushes around the East this spring, and statehouses are rife with upside potential for substantive new fraud laws in 2010. This counters the recent logic that many state lawmakers are too busy trying to …
April 19, 2010
Fraud bills are blooming like azalea bushes around the East this spring, and statehouses are rife with upside potential for substantive new fraud laws in 2010. This counters the recent logic that many state lawmakers are too busy trying to …
March 9, 2009
Fewer Fraud Bills To Be Debated in West With the downtrodden economy rumbling through the West, momentous and game-changing fraud bills will be in short supply this year. Lawmakers’ time and patience will be soaked up by efforts to shore-up …
May 21, 2007
For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion. California Capones Modern-day insurance Capones can expect a similar fate …
April 3, 2006
With Florida’s staged-accident rings thriving even while serious crimes like robbery and murder are dropping, efforts are underway to notch up the heat against money-draining insurance gangs. Legislative reforms that try to swing the enforcement pendulum back toward hard-pressed fraud …
May 23, 2005
How do you convince overworked state prosecutors to chase down often stale-sounding insurance swindles when their case files already are bulging with high-profile crimes such as drugs, robbery and murder? Insurance-fraud laws are great motivators: State prosecutors can convict con …
May 23, 2005
How do you convince overworked state prosecutors to chase down often stale-sounding insurance swindles when their case files already are bulging with high-profile crimes such as drugs, robbery and murder? Insurance-fraud laws are great motivators: State prosecutors can convict con …
April 18, 2005
How do you convince overworked state prosecutors to chase down often stale-sounding insurance swindles when their case files already are bulging with high-profile crimes such as drugs, robbery and murder? Insurance-fraud laws are great motivators: State prosecutors can convict con …