How to Defeat Insurance Fraud
An Article for the CPCU Society’s “Insights” Magazine
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The preponderance of attempted insurance fraud is staggering and costly. But perhaps even more startling, and certainly more avoidable, is the often-muted response to such crime. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimates that insurance fraud costs the industry more than $308 billion a year. No one knows the full amount because most insurance fraud attempts succeed.This article examines the extent of damage inflicted by insurance fraud, as well as strategies for deterring, and ultimately defeating, it. You can read it at
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To eradicate, or at least significantly reduce, fraud, insurance companies and states must work together, with each state invested in aggressively and vigorously fighting this crime. Today, a person perpetrating an insurance fraud need only be concerned about
payment delays or reduced amounts. Criminal prosecution of insurance
fraud is so minuscule, in relation to the amount of fraud, as to be nonexistent—and certainly does not act as a deterrent.
This article was originally published in the Winter 2022 edition of Insights: A Professional Journal by the CPCU Society and is shared with permission from The Institutes CPCU Society.
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He is available at http://www.zalma.com and zalma@zalma.com
Write to Mr. Zalma at zalma@zalma.com; http://www.zalma.com; http://zalma.com/blog; daily articles are published at https://zalma.substack.com.
Go to the podcast Zalma On Insurance at https://anchor.fm/barry-zalma; Follow Mr. Zalma on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bzalma; Go to Barry Zalma videos at Rumble.com at https://rumble.com/c/c-262921; Go to Barry Zalma on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCysiZklEtxZsSF9DfC0Expg; Go to the Insurance Claims Library – https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library