Prices, Hard Market Spur Comp Fraud A souringeconomy and dramatic premium increases are working to create aclimate where workers compensation insurance fraud is on theupsurge, according to experts who monitor the problem.
“There does appear to be an increase in the amount of workerscomp fraud,” said Dennis Jay, executive director of the CoalitionAgainst Insurance Fraud based in Washington, D.C.
He said there are no figures at the moment to back up hisperception. But, his observation is based on talks withinvestigators and state fraud bureaus. And, he said, hisorganization is in the process of doing a study in the next fewmonths that he expects will bear out his observations.
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