"Operation Collateral Damage" crashed Northern California auto body shops this week. Undercover officers visited 69 Butte and Shasta County body shops to ask for estimates to repair a damaged car.
In the January 2006 edition of Claims Queue we asked you to provide some answers to the kind of claim questions we get at FC&S. Some of you accepted the challenge and stepped up to the chalkboard.
Risk management is not just a commercial line thing. Homeowner-insureds have to practice risk management also. No work should be engaged, no contractor or sub-contractor allowed to begin, until there
In the insurance world, it almost goes without saying. Despite all our actuarial and analytical skills, things never quite go the way we might expect or would like to see. The forces of nature
According to the California Department of Insurance, Amy Quist, 29, paid her friend, Jennifer Griffin, 27, to "steal" her 2001 Ford Mustang and then set it afire. Quist reported to local police that
The readers of this magazine are well aware of the financial toll that insurance crime exacts upon insurance companies and policyholders. You also are aware of the efforts by individual insurers, the
Every fraud investigator or lawyer advising an insurer on a potentially fraudulent claim is faced, at the end of an investigation, with the need to determine whether there is sufficient grounds to
In 1982, I walked into the National Underwriter Co. offices on Fourth Street in Cincinnati and, having heard that the FC&S Bulletins had a staff writer position open, applied.