Investigators across the country are trying new tactics to crack down on the old problem of auto insurance fraud.
The tools to combat the crime, from health insurance fraud mills in New York to “swoop and squat” schemes in California, include wiretaps, undercover agents and prosecutors who view such fraud as organized crime.
In 2001, New York Gov. George Pataki appointed state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as special counsel to investigate the fraud that has helped drive up New Yorkers’ auto insurance premiums to second highest in the nation, second only to New Jersey.
New York Deputy Attorney General Peter Pope, who oversees 100 lawyers and 100 investigators statewide as the head of the office’s criminal division, said simply going after street-level perpetrators isn’t enough.
[...] You could call Maureen O’Connell the “Nancy Drew” of insurance fraud. [...]
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