Organized rings of fraud fuel high in New York, auto insurance rates
A car accident decorated in Brooklyn may seem insignificant at Western New York.
This is not the case.
You pay at least $ 60 more per year for your car insurance because of a ballooning industry fraud. Despite an all-out offensive against losses and rates will be higher.
Once a fraudster local focus in New York City, companies are tortuous of the State as guilty of using traps the rule of law, say investigators.
And it may take you even more room for them, with your money or your well-being.
Previously fraud at random with an apparition of a few individuals here and there trying to cheat and their insurers that extra money for damages from an accident or a false flight.
But over the past five years, mushroom soil, especially in New York City, a one billion dollar industry. The fraud rings organized now by doctors, lawyers and dozens of victims are often willing and coordinators.
They deliberately create small accidents, monitor the participants in the alleged medical clinics, before taxes for services not used or used, then buried with the insurance paperwork.
In addition, organized crime and money sent into action, insurance and criminal prosecution authorities officials say. Are often also “runner”, people who guide and an accident victims
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