Download or read book Tackling Insurance Fraud written by Lynne Skajaa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurance fraud is a growing problem on a global scale. The ABI estimates that fraudulent insurance claims on motor and household policies alone cost insurers in excess of £1 billion every year. This book provides an analysis of the insurance industry’s response to the problem and examines fraud from legal and practical perspectives to determine how to manage and reduce fraud. Key issues covered include: fraud in the insurance and reinsurance context, a look at industry-wide initiatives and individual insurance companies’ approaches to the problem, consideration of recent legal developments and a look at how insurance fraud is tackled in other jurisdictions. Includes a chapter on marine insurance fraud.
Download or read book Marine Insurance Fraud written by Baris Soyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and coherent legal analysis of the impact of fraud on the position of various parties to a marine insurance contract, as well as the cover provided by standard marine policies. The issues under discussion in this invaluable guide are also equally relevant in the context of non-marine insurance contracts. Helpfully divided into two parts; the first part deals with the impact of fraud committed by parties to an insurance contract i.e. the assured, brokers and insurers.The second part analyses the extent to which standard marine policies cover the fraudulent and dishonest activity of third parties to an insurance contract. This book will be of huge practical assistant to practitioners specialising in marine insurance as well as insurance generally, and to professionals, academics and post-graduate students.
Download or read book Insurance Fraud Casebook written by Laura Hymes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real case studies on insurance fraud written by real fraud examiners Insurance Fraud Casebook is a one-of-a-kind collection consisting of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive picture of the many types of insurance fraud—how they are investigated, across industries and throughout the world. Entertaining and enlightening, the cases cover every type of insurance fraud, from medical fraud to counterfeiting. Each case outlines how the fraud was engineered, how it was investigated, and how perpetrators were brought to justice Written for fraud examiners, auditors, and insurance auditors Other titles by Wells: Fraud Fighter and Corporate Fraud Handbook, Third Edition Edited by Dr. Joseph T. Wells, the founder and Chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world's leading anti-fraud organization, this book reveals the dangers of insurance fraud and the measures that can be taken to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Download or read book Broken Promises written by Robert Tillman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the costs of medical care have skyrocketed, so has the amount of money lost to fraudulent health insurance providers. These bogus operations typically victimize individuals on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale who then face staggering medical bills without coverage. Robert Tillman shows how market conditions and weak regulatory structures have allowed these crimes to occur, and cites recent institutional and legal changes that have created both new demands for insurance and greater opportunities for fraud. He also analyzes the political and economic climate that enables these criminal practices to flourish. Drawing on court documents, congressional hearings, and actual cases, Tillman provides numerous examples of the three most prevalent forms of fraud: scams involving multiple employer welfare arrangements, employee leasing schemes, and fictitious labor unions. He also examines recent innovations in insurance fraud such as "24-hour plans" and coverage offered by dubious religious organizations. With the regulation of health insurance currently in chaos, Broken Promises offers a critical examination of this insidious form of white-collar crime. It is a timely book that raises important questions about the definition of insurance and consumer protection.
Download or read book Health Insurance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Illinois Insurance Fraud Task Force written by Illinois Insurance Fraud Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Insurance written by Janet Shikles and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Efforts to Combat Fraud and Abuse in the Insurance Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Claims Costs and Crimes written by Lee S. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of insurance frauds including chapters on car thefts and fires, staged accidents, marine frauds, homeowner losses, ligigation, insurance history and theory and fraud control programs, is provided in this softbound text.
Download or read book Property Investigation Checklists written by Michael H. Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tackling Insurance Fraud written by Lynne Skajaa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurance fraud is a growing problem on a global scale. The ABI estimates that fraudulent insurance claims on motor and household policies alone cost insurers in excess of £1 billion every year. This book provides an analysis of the insurance industry’s response to the problem and examines fraud from legal and practical perspectives to determine how to manage and reduce fraud. Key issues covered include: fraud in the insurance and reinsurance context, a look at industry-wide initiatives and individual insurance companies’ approaches to the problem, consideration of recent legal developments and a look at how insurance fraud is tackled in other jurisdictions. Includes a chapter on marine insurance fraud.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor for Calendar Year written by New Jersey. Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychological Drivers of Insurance Fraud written by Carolin Hutterer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Munich School for Management), course: Executive Master of Insurance, language: English, abstract: The following master thesis covers the psychological drivers of insurance fraud. In this scientific paper it shall be explained how insurance fraudsters try to vindicate their behavior and which forms of reasoning are therefor used. Insurance fraud itself is defined as a fraud to the detriment of an insurance company by the policy holder or a third party with the aim of obtaining unjustified coverage, demanding a false payment of damages on the merits or to the extent of paying a lower insurance premium. The fraudulent behavior starts with consciously inaccurate information during application and extends up to manipulation in the context of loss. The legal consequences of insurance fraud are the same as of any other fraudulent behavior, like a fine or a short period of imprisonment. Furthermore the insurance company can claim indemnity demands or recourse or the insured can lose his coverage. It is reckoned that the annual losses of German insurance sector caused by insurance fraud are four billion Euro and that especially in the line of automobile insurance approximately every tenth notification of claim bases on fraudulent background. About 90 percent of insurance brokers report that they already were in contact with fraudulent clients and a common line in the insurance branch states that each tenth notification of claim contains fraud and that ten percent of payments are based on unjustified or fraudulent declarations. In social context insurance fraud is a damage for all insured clients. A higher rate of fraudulent behavior leads to more payments and in conclusion to higher premiums. The increased niveau of premiums furthermore reduces the public welfare of the insured and often leads to smaller profits for the insurance companies. Thereby many small deceptions have a high impact on the insurance companies, because costs of prosecution of these smaller delicts bear no proportion to the outcome. Basically insurance fraud is not tolerated in society just as any other form of fraud. But on closer inspection and having a regard to the listed numbers concerning insurance fraud it becomes clear, that there exist different standards. In the Europe-wide European social survey 2010 87 percent of respondents declared that insurance fraud is wrong or absolutely wrong.
Download or read book Every Crime Leaves a Trace So Does Insurance Fraud written by Louisiana Auto Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No fault Insurance Anti fraud Litigation written by Max Gershenoff and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No-fault insurance fraud amounts to a significant "fraud tax" on consumers, estimated at billions of dollars each year. This is a practice-focused guide to the litigation and settlement of no-fault insurance anti-fraud cases, from inception through summary judgment.
Download or read book Insurance Fraud Volume II written by Barry Zalma and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurance Fraud Is Epidemic Insurance fraud continually takes more money each year than it did the last from the insurance buying public. There is no certain number. Most attempts at insurance fraud succeed. Estimates of the extent of insurance fraud in the United States range from $87 billion to more than $300 billion every year.Insurers and government backed pseudo-insurers can only estimate the extent they lose to fraudulent claims. Lack of sufficient investigation and prosecution of insurance criminals is endemic. Most insurance fraud criminals are not detected. Those that are detected do so because they became greedy, sloppy and unprofessional so that the attempted fraud becomes so obvious it cannot be ignored.The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) estimates that almost 25% of the bodily injury claims related to auto crashes are bogus. Property and casualty claims against auto insurance are not much better, coming in at around a 10% fraud rate.A person commits the offense of insurance fraud by knowingly and with the intent to defraud any insurer presents or causes to be presented to any insurer any statement forming a part of, or in support of, a claim that contains any false, incomplete or misleading information concerning any fact or thing material to the claim. [18 Pa.C.S.A. § 4117(a)(2).] A person acts "knowingly" when he or she is aware that it is practically certain that his or her conduct will cause such a result. Likewise, a person acts "intentionally" when "it is his or her conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature or to cause such a result.As the industry attempts to keep pace with fraudsters' varied, ever-shifting tactics, it must deploy more innovative, effective anti-fraud technologies or risk dire losses. Vendors and organizations include the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF), CSC, Detica NetReveal, Equifax, Experian, FICO, IBM, Innovation Group, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), ISO/Verisk, KPMG, LexisNexis, Mattersight, Mitchell, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), SAP, SAS, and TransUnion.Insurers must also generate a close relationship with the state insurance department's fraud division or fraud bureau, local police agencies, the FBI, the ATF, the Postal Investigation Service, the local fire department's arson unit, local prosecutors, and the local U.S. Attorneys if they are to have any chance to reduce the effect of insurance fraud. Insurers should also work to make the general public, state legislators, state governors, congress members and U.S. Senators, and the Attorney General of the United States aware of the effect insurance fraud has on the public at large and the insurance industry.Wherever insurance is written insurance fraud exists. It is an equal opportunity fraud committed by people of every race, religion or national origin. Insurers who do not exercise serious anti-fraud efforts often complain that the local district attorneys and police agencies give a low priority to the crime of insurance fraud. No matter how seriously the insurers work to prove fraud the authorities often ignore them. In response, police and prosecutors complain that the insurers do nothing that police and prosecutors can use to prosecute the crime of insurance fraud while insurers complain that prosecutors ignore them when they present evidence of a fraud. There is truth in both complaints. Insurers, although compelled by statute to investigate potential insurance fraud and to present the results of their investigations to prosecutors, they are not trained as police officers. This book is written to make it clear to insurers, police and prosecutors that it is necessary to stop complaining and start working together to reduce the extent of insurance fraud. If they do not work together the crime will continue to metastasize until it will be impossible to write insurance at a profit or for a price anyone can afford.
Download or read book Personal Injury Insurance Fraud written by Joseph Lichtor and published by Lawyers & Judges Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using numerous examples, an orthopedic surgeon spotlights the growth industry of health care scams since the 19th century's "railway spine" epidemic. After overviewing the history of personal injury fraud in the US and Europe, Dr. Lichtor clearly explains the expected mechanics of specific injuries; patient evaluation, including investigation of the patient's accident history; and prevention of claimant and physician deception relating to such alleged injuries as whiplash, back injury, traumatic fibromyalgia, repetitive motion injury, and aggravation of pre-existing conditions. He concludes with chapters on malingering, Worker's Compensation Fund fraud, and federal fraud enforcement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
