Operation Dark Horizon - Auto Insurance Fraud Bust

Florida law enforcement officers arrested 17 people and are seeking another eight individuals on fraud-related charges in "Operation Dark Horizon," the largest car insurance fraud bust in the state so far this year.

The 25 people charged, including a clinic owner, doctors, clinic employees and staged accident recruiters, are accused of participating in schemes to bilk insurance companies through fraudulent personal injury protection (PIP) claims. Together they face 142 various charges, including racketeering, staging an accident, insurance fraud, grand theft and organized scheme to defraud.

According to the NICB, Florida has three of the top five cities nationally for questionable medical claims associated with staged accidents—Tampa, Miami and Orlando.

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• Auto Insurance Fraud
• Bust
• law enforcement
• arrests
• Operation Dark Horizon
• car insurance
• scheme
• insurance claims
• NICB

[Gutsyndicate]

Insurance are frauds themselves. they take ppls money and they don't like to pay them back

[agbmoe]

@Gutsyndicate Insurance premiums are high because of fraudulent claims. Your premiums go up after you get in an accident because you are a higher risk, so you pay more. The company I work for pays out 70% of all the premiums they take in in claims, 25% of the premiums goes to salary and over head, and only 5% is profit.

[Gutsyndicate]

@agbmoe well they like to charge ppl high prices, and as long as you aren't having accident or not in trouble its okay, but as soon as you miss a stop sign or in a little bender fender, you insurance will bill will double or tripple, even though you have been paying for them 10yrs without accident.

[agbmoe]

@Gutsyndicate Do you even know the first thing about insurance or how it works? I highly doubt it... the vast majority of the money that insurance companies takes in gets paid out in claims

[GoWellington]

It's not a savings account you moron. Get an education and then comment.