False allegations of gutter
In March, three lawyers and five other employees of iron Morris J.-PC, a large law firm in Manhattan, were systematically beschwindelnd with private insurers and the city of New York, $ 9 million since 1981.
In one case, the indictment, an employee of the company purchased someone to testify as an eyewitness of two separate cases car accident attempts by the company. It was discovered later, the witness had not seen that this is an accident, and, indeed, was in prison, if one of the accidents.
In another example - a slip and fall, an appeal against New York’s Aqueduct Raceway - an auditor for the company iron is a blow-called hole on the terminal and expanded with a pickax photographed before being admitted as negligent.
For investigators of insurance fraud, the indictment of iron was a victory for the industry during battle with a tenacious enemy - fraud. According to some experts, in the territory, organizes insurance fraud - for example, claimed that eight employees of iron - is more frequent in recent years. Clamoring with reduced rates of consumers and insurers are struggling to find ways to strengthen Hängebrüsten bottom lines, industry - which has been in the fight against fraud for decades - is looking for new strategies and resources.
Some leaders have no less a coordinated, all-out war against insurance fraud “as one of the main objectives of the sector for 1990. But on the compatibility of war is one thing and win something, but it is quite different. Whether in the conquest of large fraud which may or if insurers and criminal prosecution authorities is to be achieved, said the current system, it may be the decade, the question of law and their insurers, premium-paying customers.
Estimates vary on the order problem of fraud. The Insurance Institute for Crime Prevention (IPIC) said that the damage / accident industry loses $ 16 billion per year from a variety of fraud. Then again, the International Federation special investigative units, an organization composed of accession of the insurance company fraud investigators, said that the losses are closer to $ 20 billion per year. And the Federal Trade Commission estimated that fraud costs of medical care costs of the health insurance industry about 10 billion dollars per year.
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