Auto insurance fraud is growing, South Carolina officials say.
If motorcyclists injured in a traffic accident $ 6000, without indication of an ad, Nationwide Insurance investigators Bryan Altier, he said suspicious.
Elaine Morgan McIntosh of 709 W. Gallant Road, Mount York affirmed their support for James Russell Gillenwater of 34 Walnut St. Rock Hill, as the bike ridden by a son in October.
Altier said he called a farm in the state and conducts examiners and McIntosh Gillenwater had exactly the same accident over the previous week.
Both were arrested earlier this month is calculated and compared with submitting false statements for payment.
“Your statement was any” I never thought, a company with millions of dollars would be something as small as these, “said Altier.
Officials say self-insurance, directed accidents fraud is running, as investigators to obtain new instruments and break the rings Fake wreckage.
In 1998, there were 139 cases of accidents or put to rights scene of the accident, which never happened. This year, officials believe it is 200 cases, Michelle Laventure, director of the SC Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Division.
State officials said they were approximately $ 1.4 million auto insurance fraud reported in the state in 1998.
“This type of fraud increase the premium for everyone. It is not only a huge problem here, but it is a huge German problem,” said Allison Wright, Executive Director of the SC Insurance News Service.
Wright said 10 percent of all motor insurance claims are cases of fraud.
In most cases, auto insurance fraud, it is structures receivables. But Wright has said on several occasions during the year she heard groups of people in this phase, accidents profit.
Wright said the memorable event occurred around Florence. A group of people is not only the stage but then lay the collisions against trees and other hard objects. They thought their cuts and blue make their demands more faith, “said Wright.
But the rings are being staged accidents to work harder, since many insurance companies have a network to compare reports of accidents.
“If we know someone has recently been 10 accidents, we can branch and see if this person was in the case of accidents with the same driver,” said Laventure.
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