IRC Study: Details Billions In Injury Fraud
NU Online News Service, Jan. 13, 3:20 p.m. EDT?Fraud and inflated descriptions of injuries have decreased slightly, but such activity still added more than $4 billion to the cost of auto injury settlements in 2002, an industry report said.[@@]
The Insurance Research Council estimated the inflation as between 11 percent and 15 percent of personal auto injury settlement costs in 2002.
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