New Maryland Law Targets Staging Accidents for Insurance Money
East News • May 22, 2007
Maryland became only the second state to make staging an car accident to steal insurance money a specific crime when Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a bill into law last week.
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Subject: foiling fraud
Posted On: May 22, 2007, 1:17 pm CDT
Posted By: Nan
Comment:
How can it be so difficult to have a standard set of laws (countrywide) to hamper fraud and prosecute it? It should not be a contest between insurers and lawyers. (There is an actual seminar on "How to successfully sue an insurance agent). We, in MA, have finally started to see lower rates after fighting lawyers and chiropractors who knew how to circumvent the laws...now several of them are in jail with the same folks they represented.
Subject: foiling fraud