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Auto insurance fraud is a problem in the United States and now it has become a big problem in the United Kingdom. Currently the United Kingdom is number one on the list of the top places in Europe that have fraudulent whiplash claims. According to statistics, approximately one in 140 residents of the United Kingdom file a fraudulent whiplash claim every single year. This presents a huge problem that is placing a sizeable financial burden on its residents. In total, more than twelve hundred whiplash claims end up being filed each day in the United Kingdom so something needs to be done to remedy this because two billion pounds is spent each year on these claims alone.

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Car insurance fraud is something that many auto insurance companies face on a daily basis. It is very sad that criminals feel it necessary to take advantage of their auto insurers by staging accidents and filing false auto claims for accidents that they faked on purpose. Law enforcement officials have begun cracking down on people who engage in this type of illegal activity.

In Tampa Bay, Florida law enforcement officers from Hillsborough County took action against multiple assailants who have allegedly staged car accidents. The police involved call their investigation into the auto insurance fraud “Operation No Pain No Gain”. Off Read more…

This seems to be a case of another criminal that didn’t think their ill-willed plot through.  According to David Singleton’s article “Reported stolen car leads to insurance fraud arrest” in The Times Tribune, a man from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania committed car insurance fraud.  He reported his car stolen on Christmas Eve last year after it had been involved in a car accident only ten hours earlier.  The 29-year-old man told police that he left his car at Chick’s Diner in South Scranton with the keys under the floor mat.  He said that his brother picked him up at 3:30 in the morning on Christmas Eve.

Unfortunately for this would-be criminal, the police task force caught him in his lies.  After filing an insurance claim and saying that he was not in his car when it was involved in the accident, surveillance video from Chick’s Diner and cell phone records have shown that this 1999 Nissan Maxima was not stolen.  It was driven to and from Chick’s by the 29-year-old man.  Companies like Estrella Insurance and Dairyland Auto Insurance have to worry about crooks like this when they receive car insurance claims.  It’s people like this criminal that can make insurance rates go up for everyone else.  Thanks to stellar police work, this time the criminal didn’t get away with his crime.