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In his state of the state address, Florida Governor Rick Scott laid out the case for auto-insurance reforms that would crack down on fraud abuse in the states no-fault system.

Chalk up Allstates 34th fraud lawsuit since 2003 in the state of New York.

Staged auto accidents and fake insurance adjustersPIP fraud is a heavy cloud hovering over the sunshine state. Seven related arrests last month is just a drizzling of the storm.

The Sunshine States system for no-fault automobile insurance is flawed to the point of systemic abuses, and fraudulent claims are climbing to higher levels than ever, to hear one national association tell it.

The good news is a fraud task force set up by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) in South Florida in 2002 seems to have had an effect on automobile insurance fraud.

On June 11, 2010, Geico filed a $1.8 million lawsuit in which it accuses a Queens, New York radiology center of a no-fault auto insurance fraud scheme that involved thousands of suspect claims for service.

No-fault auto accident insurance fraud in New York State last year amounted to a $229 million ripoff of insurers and policyholders, said Steve Weisbart, Insurance Information Institute vice president and chief economist.