Louisiana State Police have announced the arrest of 34 individuals over the last two months following numerous criminal investigations by their Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit.
These people were involved in committing insurance fraud, including staged or “jump-in” crashes and falsifying documents to make injury claims.
Sgt. Nick Manale says some think these crimes are harmless, but that is far from the truth.
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“However, these insurance fraud cases are affecting all of us. They affect our insurance premiums. It affects all of our insurance policies across the state.”
Manale says in one case a subject paid a friend to rent a truck and then staged a crash.
“He claimed injury for himself, for his minor child who was not even in the crash or nowhere near the crash scene at the time that it occurred. And then, of course, brings all those forged documents and false claims to the insurance companies trying to collect a payment on that.”
It is reported that intentional or staged crashes costs the insurance industry billions of dollars each year in fraudulent claims. Manale says police aren’t the only ones watching out for these cases, insurance companies also have their own investigators.
“Who look at these cases and basically start flagging suspicious activity and in that case, they’ll start working with us and our investigators to determine if any crimes did happen and any intentional fraudulent acts did occur.”
