Tag: fraudulent insurance claims

Insurance fraud costs South Africa’s industry $390 million

G. Turner
California Insurance company Fraud scam

Every year, insurers are paying for this trend and that cost is being passed down to the consumer. South Africa’s short term coverage industry is paying an estimated $389.6 million every year (4 billion South African rand) in order to compensate for the insurance fraud that it is experiencing in that country. There have been a growing number of cases of fraudulent claims over the last few years. According to Santam Ltd., a Cape Town based short term insurer, this year, alone, there have already been 79 cases of commercial…

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Insurance fraud prevention efforts are underway in Oklahoma

H. Cutner
California Insurance company Fraud scam

The state and the NICB are working together to stop false claims as filings are received following tornadoes. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) are working together in an effort to combat insurance fraud by educating residents at a time when approximately 23,000 claims have already been filed in the state in the wake of a stream of catastrophic tornadoes and other severe weather events in May 2013. The storms – which primarily occurred on May 19 and 20 – have generated auto and…

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Insurance fraud study shows nearly a quarter of Americans approve of it

Julie Campbell
insurance agency overbilling fraud

The research showed that 24 percent of people in the United States think that the behavior is acceptable. The number of Americans who believe that insurance fraud is an acceptable behavior remains very high, as nearly a quarter of the people in the country feel that it is acceptable, according to a study. This same research indicated that the approval of the behavior has actually fallen over the years. Though the findings of the survey showed that 24 percent of Americans are alright with insurance fraud, this is actually a…

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Report shows insurance fraud is skyrocketing

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has released a report with statistics indicating that there was an increase of 9 percent in fraudulent insurance claims between 2009 and 2010. The report showed that in 2010, there were approximately 133,000 fraudulent claims, with a value of £919 million. This indicates that there are an average of 2,500 false claims made every week by the public. In fact, over the past five years, the value and quantity of detected fake insurance claims has increased by 100 percent. It is estimated that the…

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