Legislative creates new units fraud in Minn.
Minnesota has a tougher attitude against insurance fraud by setting up a fraud unit in the Department of Trade and strengthen their laws, by establishing a crime to use and recruit patients cappers riders .
“Senate File 3015 is a positive step forward in our fight to reduce fraud,” Laura Kotelman, counsel for the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), said. “Cases of fraud service will be better able to insurance fraud to coordinate investigations and cracks on these organized fraud will help reduce costs.”
Many insurance Ring crime in urban areas and are specialized in staging auto accidents. The Scams often health care and lawyers, but also as street musicians by operators, often as a rider and cappers.
“Insurance fraud is a major problem in Minnesota,” Kotelman. “This is not a victim of fraud, such as the cost of all consumers hundreds of dollars per year in additional premiums. This legislation ground to act according to a model of the coalition against Insurance Fraud, is a good first step, but the industry supports the ongoing actions in the management of other areas in a reform. “
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